The Rojava Revolution, also known as the Rojava conflict is a political upheaval and military conflict taking place in northern Syria, known among Kurds as Western Kurdistan or Rojava.
Top left: SDF Victory in the Battle for Raqqa (2017). Top right: Coalition airstrike on Islamic State position in Kobanî. Middle right: PYD supporters at a funeral. Bottom left: Kurdish YPJ fighters. Bottom right: Syriac Military Council patch.
Kurds, Assyrians, and Arabs demonstrate against the Syrian government in Qamishli, 6 January 2012
Ras al-Ayn and a series of other towns in northern Syria were partially captured by the YPG in 2012 (Battle of Ras al-Ayn depicted).
Anarchists and Kurds marching in France in support of Rojava
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 US-backed Syria
YPG fighters in 2013
Women's Protection Units in November 2014
U.S. Army M1126 Stryker armored vehicle in Al-Hasakah, May 2017