Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG) - The Kurdish Special Forces
The People's Protection Units or People's Defense Units (Kurdish: یەکینەکانی پاراستنی گەل, romanized: Yekîneyên Parastina Gel pronounced [jɛkiːnɛjeːn pɑːɾɑːstɯnɑː ɡɛl], Arabic: وحدات حماية الشعب, Classical Syriac: ܚܕܝ̈ܘܬܐ ܕܣܘܬܪܐ ܕܥܡܐ, romanized: Ḥdoywotho d'Sutoro d'Amo; YPG) a mainly Kurdish group acting in Syria and the primal component of the Syrian Democratic Forces, consisting of an ethnic Kurdis, but including Arabs and foreign volunteers alied to the Syriac Military Council, the militia of Assirians.
Formed in 2004 as the armed wing of the Kurdish leftist Democratic Union Party, expanded in Syrian Civil War and come as the main actor predominating over the Kurdish groups. There is a sister group, a Women's Protection Units (YPJ), which fights alongside them. The YPG is active in Northern and Eastern Syria.
The group got notoriety with victories over ISIL and the Siege of Kobanî, with the receive of air and ground support from the USA and other Coalition nations, afther that campaign the YPG founded the SDF over the USA's urge, as an ubbrella group to incorporate Arabs and minorities into war efforts. In Raqqa, the group captured the city over the Islamic State, being described as the most effective force in fighting ISIL in Syria.
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