Sinjar Resistance Units

Sinjar Resistance Units
Sinjar Resistance Units
Yekîneyên Berxwedana Şengalê (YBŞ)
	YBŞ flag
Leaders	Sheikh Khairy Khedr †; Zeki Shingali †; Daniel Kınık
Dates of operation	2007–present
Headquarters	Sinjar, Nineveh Governorate, Iraq
Ideology	Yazidi regionalism; Democratic confederalism
Political position	Left-wing
Status	Active
Size	1,500+
Part of	Sinjar Alliance; Popular Mobilization Forces
Allies	Kurdistan Workers' Party; Sinjar Women's Units; Êzîdxan Protection Force (Until March 2017); People's Protection Units; Women's Protection Units; Iraq (sometimes)
Opponents	Islamic State; Turkey; Iraq (sometimes)
Battles and wars	Kurdistan Workers' Party insurgency; Iraqi Civil War (2014–2017) Sinjar massacre; Battle of Sharfadin Temple; December 2014 Sinjar offensive; November 2015 Sinjar offensive; Battle of Mosul (2016–2017); Sinjar clashes (2017); ; Syrian Civil War 2015 Al-Hawl offensive; Manbij offensive (2016); Raqqa campaign (2016–present) Battle of Raqqa (2017); Turkish military operation in Afrin; ; ; Sinjar clashes Sinjar clashes (2019); Sinjar clashes (2022); ;
Designated as a terrorist group by	Turkey
Website	Official website

The Sinjar Resistance Units (Kurdish: Yekîneyên Berxwedana Şengalê; YBŞ) is a Yazidi militia formed in Sinjar, northern Iraq. It was formed in 2007 to protect Yazidis in the wake of the Qahtaniyah bombings. It is the second largest Yazidi militia, after the pro-KRG Êzîdxan Protection Force (HPÊ). However, it is much more active than the HPÊ in fighting against the Islamic State.

Together with its newly founded all-women offshoot, the Êzîdxan Women's Units (YJÊ), and the Sinjar Protection Units (HPŞ), in October 2015 it founded the all-Yazidi joint command umbrella structure Sinjar Alliance. YBŞ and YJÊ are part of the Kurdistan Communities Union (KCK) and work with the People's Defence Forces (HPG) of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK). Parts of the YBŞ eventually joined the Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF) as part of an initiative to integrate into the regular Iraqi Armed Forces; these elements are officially known as the 80th Regiment.