Sinjar Alliance

Sinjar Alliance
Sinjar Alliance
Fermandariya Hevbeş a Şengalê
	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;

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.

^ "Un convoi de 5.000 Kurdes à Afrin contre l'invasion turque©". 6 February 2018. Archived from the original on 7 February 2018. Retrieved 8 December 2018.
^ "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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[1] "Un convoi de 5.000 Kurdes à Afrin contre l'invasion turque©". 6 February 2018. Archived from the original on 7 February 2018. Retrieved 8 December 2018.

[2] "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.

[auto-3] "Li Şengalê 'Fermandariya Hevbeş' hat avakirin". ANF News. 29 October 2015. Archived from the original on 5 October 2016. Retrieved 4 October 2016.

[auto3-4] 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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