Peshmerga - Wikipedia
Women have played a significant role in the Peshmerga since its foundation. The Kurdish Zand tribe was known for allowing women in military roles. [27] During the Iraqi–Kurdish conflict the …
Women. Life. Freedom. Female fighters of Kurdistan | CNN
2019年1月27日 · In the mountains of northern Iraq, Hamad met members of YJA Star – the female guerrilla units of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), which spearheaded Kurdish …
Women's Protection Units - Wikipedia
Although the bulk of YPJ fighters are Kurdish women, Kurdish forces in Syria declared in 2017 that they will establish a battalion and training facility for Arab women to join the battle against …
‘The Daughters of Kobani’ Chronicles the Female Kurdish YPJ …
2021年2月15日 · For the commanders of the Kurdish Women’s Protection Units (YPJ), one of the most intrepid fighting forces on the ground, the terrorist group was anything but. The women of …
Female Kurdish fighter killed, body desecrated by... | Rudaw.net
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 …
'Daughters of Kobani' tells story of all-women Kurdish combat units …
2021年2月16日 · During six months of urban combat, an outnumbered but determined Kurdish force backed by U.S. airpower handed IS, also known as Daesh, its first strategic setback. The …
YPJ: Kurdish Women's Protection Units | The Kurdish Project
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 …
These Kurdish Women Fought on the Frontlines Against ISIS
2019年11月17日 · Efrin belongs to the Women’s Protection Units, the female militia known as the YPJ that helped secure Rojava (the de facto autonomous region in Kurdish Syria being …
How Kurdish women soldiers are confronting ISIS on the front …
2015年5月3日 · During this offensive, they took hostages, and raped and sold into slavery thousands of women. Now Kurdish women, who are part of what's known as the PKK Militia, …
Female Kurdish Soldiers Fighting for Their Rights - TIME
2015年4月9日 · They’re part of the YPJ, or Women’s Protection Unit, an offshoot of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), a Kurdish nationalist movement that has long fought a war of …