The Women's Protection Units[a] (YPJ) or Women's Defense Units is an all-female militia involved in the Syrian civil war. [9] The YPJ is part of the Syrian Democratic Forces, the armed forces of the Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, and is closely affiliated with the male-led YPG. [10]

2020年11月18日 · In Syria, the armed wing of the Kurdish Democratic Union Party is called the YPG (People's Protection Units). Its female brigade is called the YPJ (Women's Protection Units). The women of the YPJ have been on the frontlines in Syria, fighting ISIS which had taken a stronghold in a country ravaged by civil war.

The YPJ is an acronym whose translation means “Women’s Protection Units.” It is the all-female brigade of the YPG, the armed forces of the Syrian region of Kurdistan, known as Rojava (meaning Western) Kurdistan. The YPJ have been instrumental in the battle to take back control of Kobani from ISIS.

2019年1月27日 · In Syria, the armed wing of the Kurdish Democratic Union Party is called the YPG (People's Protection Units). Its female brigade is called the YPJ (Women's Protection Units). The Free Women's...

We, members of the YPG-YPJ International, are internationalists who have joined the YPG (People’s Defense Units) or YPJ (Women’s Defence Units) here in Rojava (North and East Syria). Joining YPG-YPJ, we share the commitment to defend the Rojava Revolution from military, social, political, and ideological perspectives.

2019年10月24日 · Aziza Jalal, nom de guerre Amara Renas, was a member of the SDF-affiliated Kurdish Women’s Protection Units (YPJ). She was killed and her body desecrated by Turkish-backed Syrian...

As the numbers of women joining the YPG increased, the female fighters of the YPG decided to set up the all-female Women\'s Protection Units (YPJ). The YPJ is an autonomous force and is carrying out its work and forming its own organizations based on their own program.

2016年5月11日 · Meet the female Kurdish fighters battling ISIL From Syria’s strategic Tishrin Dam, members of the YPG and YPJ have launched operations against ISIL.

2021年12月5日 · The Women’s Protection Unit (YPJ) was founded on the 4 th of April 2013. It is the female faction of the YPG, People’s Protection Units. The YPJ, like the YPG, is part of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), the armed forces of Rojava. Women were involved in the fight before 2013, but only in that year, an all-female brigade was formed.

2014年10月8日 · Jazera, like thousands of other women in Rojava, the Kurdish region of Syria, is a member of the women’s wing of the People’s Protection Unit (YPG)—an offshoot of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party...