Inside the elite all-women Kurdish group fighting ISIS Link > Article (News) / Shared By KurdishDB / No Comments ISISNBCNewsPeople's Protection Units (YPG)Rojava (Kurdish region in Syria)SyriaVideoYPJ Syrian Kurdish women battled ISIS in 2014 in the city of Kobani to defend their people, and fought alongside U.S. forces as they drove ISIS out of Raqqa.