Back تحالف سنجار Arabic Alianza de Sinyar Spanish متحدین سنجار Persian 신자르 동맹 Korean Sinjaralliantie Dutch Aliança de Sinjar Portuguese Sincar İttifakı Turkish
| Sinjar Alliance | |
|---|---|
| Fermandariya Hevbeş a Şengalê | |
.jpg) Fighters of the YBŞ, one of the member militias, in 2017 | |
| Dates of operation | October 2015–present |
| Group(s) |
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| 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 |
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 to protect the Yezidi community from ISIL attacks,[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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