Sinjar Alliance

Sinjar Alliance
Fermandariya Hevbeş a Şengalê
Participant in Iraqi Civil War (2014–present)
An unofficial flag used by some Yazidis.
An unofficial flag used by some Yazidis.
Active October 2015–present
Groups
Allies Kurdistan Workers' Party
Opponents  Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant
Battles and wars Iraqi Civil War (2014–present)
The flag used by the HPÊ

The Sinjar Alliance (Kurdish: Fermandariya Hevbeş a Şengalê‎, i.e. Sinjar Joint Command), full name as Ezidkhan Command for Liberating Sinjar (Kurdish: Fermandariya Êzîdxana Ji Bo Rizgariya Şengalê‎), is a joint command of two Yazidi militias, the Sinjar Resistance Units (YBŞ), and the Êzîdxan Women's Units (YJÊ). Both militias are supported by the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK).[1]

The alliance was created in the end of October 2015[2] and aims to establish democratic confederalism and a Yazidi autonomous region in Ezidkhan within the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) in Iraqi Kurdistan.

There are tensions between the Sinjar Alliance and the Kurdish Regional Government because the president of Iraqi Kurdistan, Masoud Barzani aims to control all of Sinjar and demands the withdrawal of PKK-linked militias.[3]

In March 2017, the Êzîdxan Protection Force (HPÊ) announced that it will join the Peshmerga and take orders from the President of Iraqi Kurdistan, thus leaving the Sinjar Alliance.[4]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "With the Islamic State gone from Sinjar, Kurdish groups battle for control". Al-Monitor. 10 December 2015. Retrieved 26 June 2016.
  2. ↑ "Li Şengalê 'Fermandariya Hevbeş' hat avakirin". ANFNews. 29 October 2015.
  3. ↑ "From survival to diaspora: the Yazidis in North Kurdistan". Nationalia. 22 December 2015. Retrieved 16 April 2016.
  4. ↑ Kurdistan24. "Haider Shesho: Ezidkhan Units take orders from President Barzani, Peshmerga Ministry". Retrieved 23 March 2018.
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