Êzîdxan Women's Units

Êzîdxan Women's Units
Êzîdxan Women's Units
Yekinêyen Jinên Êzidxan (YJÊ)
	Flag of Sinjar Women's Units
Leaders	Berivan Aslan (chief commander); Rosyar Vejin (Khanasor commander); "Koçber" (Manbij commander)
Dates of operation	2015–present
Headquarters	Sinjar, Nineveh Governorate, Iraq
Ideology	Democratic confederalism; Yazidi regionalism; Jineology
Status	Active
Part of	Sinjar Alliance
Allies	Sinjar Resistance Units (YBŞ); Êzîdxan Protection Force (HPÊ); Free Women's Units (YJA-Star); Bethnahrain Women's Protection Forces ; Women's Protection Units (YPJ)
Opponents	Islamic State; Rojava Peshmerga
Battles and wars	Kurdistan Workers' Party insurgency; Iraqi Civil War (2014–2017) November 2015 Sinjar offensive; Sinjar clashes (2017); ; Syrian Civil War Manbij offensive (2016); Raqqa campaign (2016–present) Battle of Raqqa (2017); ; ;

The Êzîdxan Women's Units (Kurdish: Yekinêyen Jinên Êzîdxan or YJÊ) is a Yazidi all-women militia formed in Iraq in 2015 to protect the Yazidi community in the wake of attacks by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant and other Islamist groups that view Yazidis as pagan infidels.

An offshoot of the mixed-gender Yazidi militia Sinjar Resistance Units (YBŞ), the YJÊ was founded on 5 January 2015 under the original name of Yekîneyên Parastina Jin ê Şengalê (Kurdish: Sinjar Women’s Protection Units, YJŞ), or YPJ-Sinjar. The militia adopted its current name on 26 October 2015.

The organization follows imprisoned PKK leader Abdullah Öcalan's feminist Jineology, and with the broader concept of democratic confederalism as advocated by the Group of Communities in Kurdistan (KCK).