Women&#039;s Defense Units http://archive.smallwarsjournal.com/index.php/ en Why America Should Care About the YPJ in Syria http://archive.smallwarsjournal.com/index.php/jrnl/art/why-america-should-care-about-the-ypj-in-syria <span>Why America Should Care About the YPJ in Syria</span> <span><span>SWJED</span></span> <span>Fri, 01/27/2017 - 1:28pm</span> <div class="field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field--item"><p> The best example of a group worthy of our attention, care and support is the northern Syria all-female self-defense unit, the Women's Protection Units (or Women's Defense Units - YPJ).</p> </div> <ul class="links inline list-inline"><li class="node-readmore"><a href="/index.php/jrnl/art/why-america-should-care-about-the-ypj-in-syria" rel="tag" title="Why America Should Care About the YPJ in Syria" hreflang="en">Read more<span class="visually-hidden"> about Why America Should Care About the YPJ in Syria</span></a></li><li class="comment-comments"><a href="/index.php/jrnl/art/why-america-should-care-about-the-ypj-in-syria#comments" title="Jump to the first comment." hreflang="en">3 comments</a></li><li class="comment-new-comments"><a href="/index.php/taxonomy/term/800/feed" class="hidden" title="Jump to the first new comment." data-history-node-last-comment-timestamp="1659000723" data-history-node-field-name="comment"></a></li><li class="comment-forbidden"></li><li></li></ul> Fri, 27 Jan 2017 18:28:41 +0000 SWJED 60884 at http://archive.smallwarsjournal.com