The Women’s Protection Units, or YPJ, became ISIS’s most unexpected and determined enemies. ISIS feared them more than ...

“In recent weeks ISIS has launched six attacks on our sites,” a spokesman for the People's Protection Units (YPG), a key military faction of the SDF, told The National. But he said prisons and ...

The difficulty for the U.S. is that while the YPG’s battle-hardened cadres have notched a series of crucial victories over ISIS, including the most recent one at Manbij, a Syrian town on the ...

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we turned our back on our allies," the Syrian Defense Forces (SDF), who partnered with the US against ISIS. The SDF grew from the YPG, the Kurdish defense forces in Syria that Turkey considers a ...

as ISIS scored victories in places such as Palmyra and Ramadi, but the group’s rapid growth and aura of invincibility were be shattered in Kobanî by the heroic fighters of the YPG (Kurdish ...

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - Kurdish-led security forces on Saturday launched an operation against Islamic State (ISIS) cells in ...

Al-Monitor is an award-winning media outlet covering the Middle East, valued for its independence, diversity and analysis. It is read widely by US, international and Middle East decision makers at the ...