People's Defense Units - Wikipedia
The YPG mostly consists of Kurds, but also includes Arabs and foreign volunteers; it is closely allied to the Syriac Military Council, an Assyrian militia. The YPG was formed in 2011. It expanded rapidly in the Syrian Civil War and came to predominate over other armed Syrian Kurdish groups.
YPG: People’s Protection Units - The Kurdish Project
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.
Kurdish People’s Protection Unit YPG - GlobalSecurity.org
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...
PKK/YPG blocks return of Syrian refugees in Iraq | Daily Sabah
18 小时之前 · A month after the collapse of the 61-year Baath regime in Syria, Syrian refugees in neighboring Iraq are longing to return home, but the PKK/YPG terrorist group’s occupation remains a major obstacle. Syrians displaced by the civil war that broke out in 2011 have been living under strenuous ...
What is the Syrian Kurdish YPG? | Reuters
2022年11月14日 · The YPG, or the People's Protection Units, emerged as a powerful armed group during the Syrian civil war, which began in 2011.
5 天之前 · 2014 YPG and PKK aid Iraqi Kurdish peshmerga in Iraq’s Sinjar against Islamic State; peshmerga gain Erdogan’s approval to transit through Turkey to aid YPG in IS-besieged Syrian border town of Kobane. U.S. air operations against the Islamic State indirectly help the YPG and other anti-IS forces in Kobane area. U.S.-YPG Cooperation and U.S ...
The U.S.-YPG Relationship: U.S. Foreign Policy & the Future of the ...
U.S. military support for the People’s Protection Units (YPG), the Syrian branch of the Turkey-based Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), has been an enduring problem for the U.S. relationship with Turkey, one of its historical allies in the Middle East since World War 1.
‘Everywhere Around Is the Islamic State’: On the Road in Iraq with YPG …
2014年8月16日 · As both Iraqi central government troops and KRG peshmerga fled the Islamic State’s offensive, the YPG moved into Iraq, fighting side by side with their former peshmerga rivals, and urging a...
Turkey Says It Will Mount Offensive Against Kurdish YPG if …
2025年1月7日 · Turkey considers the YPG, which spearheads the U.S.-allied Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), as a terrorist group linked to Kurdish militants waging a decades-old insurgency against the Turkish state.
People Protection Units (YPG) in Syria and Sinjar Resistance Units (YBS) in Iraq, enabled it to exert security and political influence. On the one hand, this turned segments of the border into an arena for transnational, pan-Kurdish militancy. On the …