Bethnahrain Women's Protection Forces

The Bethnahrain Women's Protection Forces (Classical Syriac: ܚܝܠܘ̈ܬܐ ܕܣܘܬܪܐ ܕܢܫ̈ܐ ܕܒܝܬ ܢܗܪܝܢ, romanized: Ḥaylawotho d'Sutoro d'Neshe d'Beth Nahrin; HSNB) is an all-female Assyrian military and police organization based in al-Qahtaniyah, al-Hasakah Governorate, Syria.

HSNB was set up as a female brigade of the Syriac Military Council and assumes guard roles in areas where Assyrians reside.

During the announcement of the formation, the group declared that it will fight under the guidance of the Syriac Union Party, ally with the Assyrian group Sutoro, and "improve the values of Syriac people, women’s rights and to act with solidarity with other nations’ women and to struggle against the reactionarism.

"[1] On 6 November 2016, the HSNB announced that it would partake in the Raqqa offensive alongside the MFS and Kurdish and Arab forces of the Syrian Democratic Forces[8][6] The Bethnahrain Women's Protection Forces follow the Dawronoye ideology, a secular left-wing Assyrian nationalist movement tracing back to the 1980s in Midyat, Turkey.

[9] Shamiran Shimon, the head of the Syriac Women's Union (SWU) in Syria, announced that the HSNB was to be formed as Assyrian women in Syria had been obscured and persecuted by the masculine communities in the region.