[2] The alliance was originally created in October 2015 to protect the Yezidi community from ISIL attacks,[3] after the August 2014 Sinjar massacre,[4] and included the Êzîdxan Protection Force (HPŞ), which in fact provided the largest contingent of fighters (claiming at the time of the operation 5,000 fighters, including about 400 women).

[5] However, the HPŞ left the alliance in early 2017 due to ideological differences with the PKK-backed YBŞ and YJÊ.

The YPG, a PKK affiliated militia known for its women fighters the YPJ, played a large role in the training of YBŞ forces.

[8] In YBŞ' early existence it assisted in maintaining supply roads for HPS and YPG as a corridor was created for Yazidi safe passage out of Sinjar.

Shingali died in 2018, just minutes after attending a vigil for those Yazidi's that lost their lives in the ISIS assault on Sinjar.

"[12] Joined by their female soldiers, the YPG, the YJÊ plays a crucial role in defending the Yazidi people from IS attacks.

Currently, YJÊ ideology maintains an aggressive stance; in 2017, YJÊ issued a statement: "We repeat over and over again that we are continuing our struggle and resistance anywhere for kidnapped Yazidi women and all oppressed women, we will hold the struggle flag high and continue our battle against all kinds of oppression and persecution wherever it existed".

[16] Despite YPG efforts, many Yazidis were forced to flee up Mount Sinjar, those who didn't make it were either enslaved or murdered.

[17] Yazidi women and girls who encountered ISIS were enslaved and raped, with numbers totalling to over 7,000 victims.

[17] The majority of Yazidis found safe passage through a corridor into Iraqi Kurdistan, provided by the YPG, PKK, HPS and the newly formed YBŞ.

[18] To this day the trend continues, Cale Salih wrote, "The rise of Islamic fundamentalism more broadly has pushed thousands of Yazidis to seek asylum in Europe".

[21] One villager was quoted saying, "We left in the middle of the night for fear that they would kill us as happened with our people in Sinjar".

[23] The Turkish government publicly stated that it would clear its southern border of Kurds, primarily the YPG, YBŞ and other PKK backed groups, in what they claimed to be a resettlement plan for Syrian refugees living in Turkey.

[23] This put Yazidis at double the risk for persecution by the Turks and other groups, by living in a Kurdish occupied area, and not being Muslim.

[12] Following the Turkish airstrikes on the Yazidi in August 2018, the Nobel Peace Prize recipient, Nadia Murad said: "Today Turkey carried several air strikes in different locations in Sinjar.