page_title: Sinjar Alliance
hierarchical_section_title: Sinjar Alliance
caption_attribution_description: YPG
context_page_description: The Sinjar Alliance, full name as Ezidkhan Command for Liberating Sinjar, is a joint command of two Yazidi militias, the Sinjar Resistance Units, and the Êzîdxan Women's Units. Both militias are supported by the Kurdistan Workers' Party. The alliance was originally created in the end of October 2015, as a response to Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant attacks on Sinjar City in August 2014, and was aimed to establish Democratic Confederalism and a Yazidi autonomous region within the Kurdistan Region.
context_section_description: The Sinjar Alliance (Kurdish: Fermandariya Hevbeş a Şengalê‎, i.e. Sinjar Joint Command), full name as Ezidkhan Command for Liberating Sinjar (Kurdish: Fermandariya Êzîdxana Ji Bo Rizgariya Şengalê‎), is a joint command of two Yazidi militias, the Sinjar Resistance Units (YBŞ), and the Êzîdxan Women's Units (YJÊ). Both militias are supported by the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK). The alliance was originally created in the end of October 2015, as a response to Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS) attacks on Sinjar City in August 2014 , and was aimed to establish Democratic Confederalism and a Yazidi autonomous region within the Kurdistan Region.
caption: Fighters of the YBŞ, one of the member militias, in 2017
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