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The People's Defense Units, Kurdish abbreviation YPG, also called People's Protection Units, is a libertarian socialist Kurdish militant group in Syria and the primary component of the Syrian Democrat
YPG fighters in 2013
Women's Protection Units in November 2014
U.S. Army M1126 Stryker armored vehicle in Al-Hasakah, May 2017
The Democratic Union Party is a Kurdish left-wing political party established on 20 September 2003 in northern Syria. It is a founding member of the National Coordination Committee for Democratic Chan
People's Defense Units
…that were to become the YPG were formed in July and August 2011 as the Self Protection units (YXG). 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…
The People's Protection Units (YPG) were initially formed by the Democratic Union Party (PYD)
Salih Muslim, co-chairman of Rojava's leading Democratic Union Party (PYD) with Ulla Jelpke at Rosa Luxemburg Foundation in Berlin