Narin Afrin (b. c. 1974) is the nom de guerre of Meysa Abdo, a leader of the Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG), Women's Protection Units (YPJ), and Kobane resistance, notably during the 2014–2015 Siege of Kobanî.

Narin Afrin was a resistance leader during the 2014–2015 Siege of Kobanî, representing the Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG)[1] and Peshmerga fighters.

[2] The resistance group, the People's Protection Units (YPG), is secular, politically left-wing, and the armed wing of the Kurdish Democratic Union Party (PYD).

[1] She also leads the Women's Protection Units (YPJ), an all-female force affiliated with the YPG.

[3] Afrin avoids media spotlight—most published photos of Afrin were not actually her—and has expressed worry about the media portrayal of the Women's Protection Units, which focuses on the "cause célèbre" of empowered, "bronzed women toting guns" in a conservative region associated with a ruthless Islamic State.