Fighters of the YBŞ, one of the member militias, in 2017
Dates of operation
October 2015–present
Group(s)
Êzîdxan Women's Units
Sinjar Resistance Units
Êzîdxan Protection Force (Until March 2017)
Headquarters
Sinjar, Iraq
Allies
Kurdistan Workers' Party
Opponents
Turkey Syrian National Army Islamic State
Battles and wars
War in Iraq (2013–2017) Syrian Civil War
Turkish military operation in Afrin[1]
The Ezidkhan Command for Liberating Sinjar (Kurdish: Fermandariya Êzîdxana Ji Bo Rizgariya Şengalê), known as the Sinjar Alliance (Kurdish: Fermandariya Hevbeş a Şengalê, i.e. Sinjar Joint Command), is a joint command of two - initially three - Yazidi militias, the Sinjar Resistance Units (YBŞ), and the Êzîdxan Women's Units (YJÊ). Both of the remaining two militias are supported by the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK).[2]
The alliance was originally created in October 2015,[3] after the August 2014 Sinjar massacre,[4] and included the Êzîdxan Protection Force (HPŞ), which in fact provided the largest contingent of fighters (claiming at the time of the operation 5,000 fighters, including about 400 women).[5] However, the HPŞ left the alliance in early 2017 due to ideological differences with the PKK-backed YBŞ and YJÊ.[6] The Alliance aims to establish democratic confederalism in a Yazidi autonomous region in Sinjar.
^"With the Islamic State gone from Sinjar, Kurdish groups battle for control". Al-Monitor. 10 December 2015. Archived from the original on 8 April 2016. Retrieved 25 June 2016. Retrieved 26 June 2016.
^"Li Şengalê 'Fermandariya Hevbeş' hat avakirin". ANF News. 29 October 2015. Archived from the original on 5 October 2016. Retrieved 4 October 2016.
^Cetorelli, Valeria; Sasson, Isaac; Shabila, Nazar; Burnham, Gilbert (2017). "Mortality and kidnapping estimates for the Yazidi population in the area of Mount Sinjar, Iraq, in August 2014: A retrospective household survey". PLOS Medicine. 14 (5): e1002297. doi:10.1371/journal.pmed.1002297. PMC 5423550. PMID 28486492.
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Liberating Sinjar (Kurdish: Fermandariya Êzîdxana Ji Bo Rizgariya Şengalê), known as the SinjarAlliance (Kurdish: Fermandariya Hevbeş a Şengalê, i.e. Sinjar Joint...
October 2015 it founded the all-Yazidi joint command umbrella structure SinjarAlliance. YBŞ and YJÊ are part of the Kurdistan Communities Union (KCK) and...
civilians fleeing Sinjar, of whom around 50,000 Yazidis were reportedly escaping to the nearby Sinjar Mountains. They were trapped on Mount Sinjar, surrounded...
The November Sinjar offensive was a combination of operations of Kurdish Peshmerga, PKK, and Yezidi Kurd militias in November 2015, to recapture the city...
Zakho and Tel Kaif, in Bashiqa and Bahzani, and the areas around Sinjar mountains in Sinjar district. According to estimates, the number of Yazidis in Iraq...
bombers with explosive vests carried out the attack at a cafe in Sinjar, west of Mosul. In Sinjar, many townspeople are members of the Yazidi minority. In 2014...
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constructing a Yazidi temple outside historically sacred places like Lalish or Sinjar, and also the close collaboration between the Georgian state and the Orthodox...
illegally settling in Pakistan War in Iraq (2013–2017) Iraq Peshmerga SinjarAlliance CJTF–OIR United States Canada United Kingdom France Germany Australia...
also supported by foreign fighters, including Iraqi fighters of the SinjarAlliance, troops of the International Freedom Battalion, and PKK fighters. In...
Retrieved 5 September 2019. "UAE joins international maritime security alliance". Al Arabiya. 19 September 2019. Archived from the original on 12 October...
Paramilitary Asayish Êzîdxan Protection Force Êzîdxan Women's Units SinjarAllianceSinjar Resistance Units People and religious figures List of Iraqi Yazidis...
Paramilitary Asayish Êzîdxan Protection Force Êzîdxan Women's Units SinjarAllianceSinjar Resistance Units People and religious figures List of Iraqi Yazidis...
Mountains Political parties: Yazidi Movement for Reform and Progress, SinjarAlliance West Bank and the Gaza Strip People: Palestinians De jure state: Palestine...
Paramilitary Asayish Êzîdxan Protection Force Êzîdxan Women's Units SinjarAllianceSinjar Resistance Units People and religious figures List of Iraqi Yazidis...
2020. "Reconstruction of the Yazidi Mam Rashan shrine". International Alliance for the protection in heritage in conflict areas. Retrieved 22 December...
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