Êzidxan Women's Units
| Êzidxan Women's Units | |
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Yekinêyen Jinên Êzidxan (YJÊ) Participant in Iraqi Civil War (2014–present) |
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Flag of Sinjar Women's Units
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| Active | 2015–present |
| Ideology |
Democratic Confederalism, Yazidi regionalism, Jineology |
| Leaders |
Berivan Aslan (chief commander) |
| Headquarters | Sinjar, Nineveh Governorate, Iraq |
| Part of | Sinjar Alliance |
| Originated as | Sinjar Women’s Defense Units (YPJ-Sinjar) |
| Allies |
Sinjar Resistance Units (YBŞ) |
| Opponents |
 Rojava Peshmerga
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| Battles and wars | |
Berivan Aslan (chief commander)
Rosyar Vejin(Khanasor commander)
Sinjar Resistance Units (YBŞ)
Protection Force of Sinjar (HPŞ)
Free Women's Units (YJA-Star)
Bethnahrain Women's Protection Forces
Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant
Iraqi Civil War (2014–present)
The Êzidxan Women's Units (Kurdish: Yekinêyen Jinên Êzidxan or YJÊ) is a Yazidi all-women militia formed in Iraq in 2015 to protect the Yazidi community in the wake of attacks by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant and other Islamist groups that view Yazidis as pagan infidels.
An offshoot of the mixed-gender Yazidi militia Sinjar Resistance Units (YBŞ), the YJÊ was founded on 5 January 2015 under the original name of Yekîneyên Parastina Jin ê Şengalê (Kurdish: Sinjar Women’s Protection Units), or YPJ-Sinjar. The militia adopted its current name on 26 October 2015.
The organization follows imprisoned PKK leader Abdullah Öcalan's feminist Jineology, and with the broader concept of Democratic Confederalism as advocated by the Group of Communities in Kurdistan (KCK).
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