The Protection Force of Êzîdxan (HPÊ)[nb 1] (Kurdish: Hêza Parastina Êzîdxanê ,هێزی پاراستنی ئێزیدخان,[4][5] Arabic: قوة حماية ايزيدخان[6]), is a Yazidi military force founded by Haydar Shesho in the summer of 2014 in respond to the Sinjar massacre.

"[10] He was released a week later after it was negotiated that he would register with the KRG's Ministry of Peshmerga.

[3][better source needed] This, despite the warnings of Haydar Shesho in the immediate aftermath of the liberation of Sinjar over a "war of flags".

Massoud Barzani, leader of the KDP and the most powerful figure in Iraqi Kurdistan, claimed on television that only KRG Peshmerga were involved in the Sinjar offensives.

ezidiPress quoted from the office of Haydar Shesho: "the next battle... might be the most difficult: the abolition of the one-party dictatorship.