page_title: Self-Defense Forces (NES regions)
hierarchical_section_title: Self-Defense Forces (NES regions)
caption_attribution_description: English: HXP (Self Defense Forces)
context_page_description: Self-Defense Forces is a multi-ethnic territorial defense militia and the only conscripted armed force in the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria. As a self-defense force, manpower for the HXP is recruited locally.
context_section_description: Self-Defense Forces (Kurdish: Hêzên Xweparastinê‎, abbreviated as HXP; Arabic: قوات الحماية الذاتية‎, romanized: Quwwāt al-ḥimāyati aḏ-ḏātiyyati, Classical Syriac: ܓܘܫܡܐ ܕܣܘܝܥܐ ܘܣܘܬܪܐ ܝܬܝܐ‎, romanized: Gushmo d'Suyo'o w'Sutoro Yothoyo) is a multi-ethnic territorial defense militia and the only conscripted armed force in the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria. As a self-defense force, manpower for the HXP is recruited locally.
caption: HXP militiamen with the organization's flag in the background.
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