Existing underground Kurdish political parties, the Democratic Union Party (PYD) and the Kurdish National Council (KNC), joined to form the Kurdish Supreme Committee (KSC) and established the People's Protection Units (YPG) militia to defend Kurdish-inhabited areas in northern Syria, i.e. Syrian Kurdistan and the Kurdish enclave of Sheikh ...

YPG is an acronym whose translation means People’s Protection Units. It is the home grown defense forces of the Kurdish area of Syria. It emerged after the Civil War erupted in Syria and started to spill over into Syrian Kurdistan, now known as Rojava, or Western Kurdistan.

2023年10月5日 · U.S.-allied Syrian Kurdish forces said on Thursday that Turkish attacks had killed eight people in an escalation prompted by a bomb attack in Ankara claimed by Kurdish militants.

2025年1月7日 · Turkey will carry out a cross-border offensive into northeastern Syria against the Kurdish YPG militia if the group does not meet Ankara's demands, Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan said on Tuesday,...

The People's Protection Units / Popular Protection Units [Yekîneyên Parastina Gel = YPG] is the armed wing of the Syrian Kurdish Democratic Union Party (PYD). Türkiye's Foreign Minister Hakan...

2025年3月11日 · A Kurdish-led militia alliance which controls north-eastern Syria has signed a deal to integrate all military and civilian institutions into the Syrian state, the country's presidency says.

2025年3月10日 · The PKK has also proliferated over the years with several offshoots, such as the Party of Free Life of Kurdistan (PJAK) in Iran and the Democratic Union Party (PYD) and its military wing, the People’s Protection Units (YPG), in Syria.

L'YPG ha stretti rapporti con il PKK, la principale organizzazione militante dei curdi in Turchia, mentre è avversato dal PDK, il principale partito curdo al governo nel Kurdistan iracheno il quale tuttavia ha fornito supporto alle operazioni dello YPG contro lo Stato Islamico fino al 2015. [3]

2021年4月19日 · This report analyses the role of the Syrian Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG) and the associated Democratic Union Party (PYD) during the Syrian civil war.

5 天之前 · Around 500 Kurdish fighters from the northern Syrian city of Aleppo as part of an agreement with the transitional government.