Uploaded August 2017 | Updated September 2026, 1 hour ago

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“We can even say that women are ahead of men. Women lead men.”

Meet the fighters of the YPJ, the Women’s Protection Units in Syria.

OUR ALLIES is a three-part series that shows the daily lives of anti-ISIS combatants in Iraq and Syria.

Directed by Anders Hammer

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