An curved arrow pointing right. Former Canadian model Hanna Böhman is in Syria fighting ISIS as part of the Kurdish YPJ, a female brigade that is part of the Kurdish coalition. The mother of one ...

The new Kurdish assertiveness is evident not only in Iraq but also in Syria, where the YPJ, a Kurdish militia, has partnered with the U.S. military to fight the Islamic State (ISIS), Turkey ...

read a statement from the Kurdish Women's Protection Units (YPJ) in Rojava on Monday. Roj is the smaller of the two camps in Rojava housing people with links to ISIS. The larger al-Hol camp houses ...

The Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF ... Ruken Jamal, spokesperson of the Women's Protection Unit, or YPJ, under the SDF, told AP that their fighters are just over seven miles away ...

Ronahi TV reported that Abdi and Rohlat Afrin, commander of the Women’s Protection Units (YPJ), an all-woman Kurdish armed group operating under the SDF, delivered a speech to a crowd at the dam ...

It was in that year that the Kurdish-controlled city of Kobani came ... working in support of the Women’s Defence Units (YPJ). “I wanted to write a story that captured the heroism and what ...

This is the shocking moment a young Kurdish girl fires a machine gun at ... to enter battles with the Women's Protection Units, or YPJ, reportedly leading to descent within the ranks of the ...