The Civil Protection Units (Kurdish: Yekîneyên Parastina Sivîl, pronounced [jɛkinɛjen parastɪna sɪvil]; YPS), also known as Civil Defense Units, is a...

The Women's Protection Units or Women's Defense Units is an all-female militia involved in the Syrian civil war. The YPJ is part of the Syrian Democratic...

search and rescue operations and heavy technical assistance. Some Civil Protection units however also partake in the regular emergency response in their...

be a brutal police state. In City 17, an Eastern European city, Civil Protection units routinely conduct searches of apartment blocks, interrogating human...

Civil defense or civil protection is an effort to protect the citizens of a state (generally non-combatants) from human-made and natural disasters. It...

Wasserwacht branch of the German Red Cross has chosen johnboats for their civil protection units for use during floods. In the late 19th century, flat-bottom boats...

December 2015, the YDG-H was reorganized into the Civil Protection Units (YPS) militia. People's Protection Units (YPG) "A new generation of Kurdish militants...

Tabûr (AIT) of the People's Protection Units (YPG). The unit is part of the Syrian Democratic Forces in the Syrian Civil War. The brigade was founded...

in the Iraqi Civil War November 2015 Sinjar offensive Also transliterated as Ezidkhan Defense Units, Ezidkhan Protection Force, Protection Force of Ezidkhan...

The Federal Department of Defence, Civil Protection and Sport (DDPS, German: Eidgenössisches Departement für Verteidigung, Bevölkerungsschutz und Sport...

in the Syrian Civil War and came to predominate over other armed Syrian Kurdish groups. A sister militia, the Women's Protection Units (YPJ), fights alongside...

The Nineveh Plain Protection Units (Classical Syriac: ܚܕܝ̈ܘܬ ܣܬܪܐ ܕܫܛܚܐ ܕܢܝܢܘܐ Ḥḏāywāṯ Settārā da-Šṭāḥā d-Nīnwē; Arabic: وحدات حماية سهل نينوى) or NPU...

the Êzîdxan Women's Units (YJÊ), the formerly Peshmerga-aligned Protection Force of Sinjar (HPŞ) and other independent Yazidi units committed to the united...

(TKEP/L) Patriotic Revolutionary Youth Movement (YDG-H) Civil Protection Units (YPS) Civil Protection Units-Women (YPS-Jin) Kurdish National Alliance in Syria...

Sinjar Resistance Units (YBŞ), the formerly Peshmerga-aligned Protection Force of Sinjar (HPŞ) and other, independent Yezidi units committed to the united...

twenty-one others. Peshmerga List of armed groups in the Syrian Civil War Civil Protection Units, Turkey Communist Labour Party of Turkey/Leninist Communist...

objects hazardous radiatively, chemically and biologically; protection of formations and units against the nuclear effects of mass destruction weapons and...

The national federation of civil protection (French: fédération nationale de protection civile), or the FNPC, is one of the a French humanitarian and first...

YPS may refer to: Civil Protection Units (YPS), a Kurdish rebel group in Turkey IATA airport code of Port Hawkesbury Airport, in Canada Yps (comics), a...

The Directorate-General for Civil Protection and Emergencies (DGPCE) is a component of the Spanish Department of the Interior responsible for promoting...

specialized units to provide protection for witnesses and their families who face threats to their life. Notable units include the Witness Protection Unit (WPU)...

Federal Office for Civil Protection (FOCP) (German: Bundesamt für Bevölkerungsschutz, BABS, French: Office fédéral de la protection de la population, OFPP...

The Directorate-General for European Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid Operations (DG ECHO), formerly known as the European Community Humanitarian...

arrested. After 7 days following the appearance of the wildfires, Civil Protection units have successfully extinguished 41 forest fires in nine provinces...

This is a list of active police tactical units. Police tactical units are specialized units of a police force tasked with resolving high risk / critical...

Women's Units (YJA-STAR) Civil Protection Units (YPS) People's Protection Units (YPG) Women's Protection Units (YPJ) Eastern Kurdistan Units (HRK) Komalah...

best trained and equipped members of the People's Protection Units (YPG) and Women's Protection Units (YPJ). They were led by the Syrian Kurdish commander...

The American Civil War (April 12, 1861 – May 26, 1865; also known by other names) was a civil war in the United States between the Union ("the North")...

killed and 5 were injured, along with a civilian. Civil conflict in Turkey Civil Protection Units Communist Party of Turkey/Marxist–Leninist (Maoist...

officially known as the Civil Guard (Finnish: Suojeluskunta, IPA: [ˈsuo̯jelusˌkuntɑ]; Swedish: Skyddskår; lit. 'Protection Corps'), was a voluntary militia...