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Meet The Fighting Bethnahrin Women of Syria

Published September 1st, 2019 - 06:19 GMT

The Bethnahrin Women Protection Forces- HSNB was founded in northern Syria with the objective to strengthen and defend Syriac people and women and all components of the region. 

The Bethnahrain Women's Protection Forces was formed on the first day of September 2015. 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 forces of reaction.

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A member of the Bethnahrin Women Protection Forces (HSNB), an all-female Syriac-Assyrian paramilitary group under the umbrella of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), chants slogans as during a commemoration of the fourth anniversary of their creation, in the countryside of the town of Tall Tamr in the northwestern Syrian province of Hasakah, on August 30, 2019. Delil SOULEIMAN / AFP

A member of the Bethnahrin Women Protection Forces (HSNB), an all-female Syriac-Assyrian paramilitary group under the umbrella of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), chants slogans as during a commemoration of the fourth anniversary of their creation, in the countryside of the town of Tall Tamr in the northwestern Syrian province of Hasakah, on August 30, 2019. Delil SOULEIMAN / AFP

Members of the Bethnahrin Women Protection Forces (HSNB), an all-female Syriac-Assyrian paramilitary group under the umbrella of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), line-up as they commemorate the fourth anniversary of their creation, in the countryside of the town of Tall Tamr in the northwestern Syrian province of Hasakah, on August 30, 2019. Delil SOULEIMAN / AFP

Members of the Bethnahrin Women Protection Forces (HSNB), an all-female Syriac-Assyrian paramilitary group under the umbrella of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), line-up as they commemorate the fourth anniversary of their creation, in the countryside of the town of Tall Tamr in the northwestern Syrian province of Hasakah, on August 30, 2019. Delil SOULEIMAN / AFP

Members of the Bethnahrin Women Protection Forces (HSNB), an all-female Syriac-Assyrian paramilitary group under the umbrella of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), line-up as they commemorate the fourth anniversary of their creation, in the countryside of the town of Tall Tamr in the northwestern Syrian province of Hasakah, on August 30, 2019. Delil SOULEIMAN / AFP

Members of the Bethnahrin Women Protection Forces (HSNB), an all-female Syriac-Assyrian paramilitary group under the umbrella of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), line-up as they commemorate the fourth anniversary of their creation, in the countryside of the town of Tall Tamr in the northwestern Syrian province of Hasakah, on August 30, 2019. Delil SOULEIMAN / AFP

A member of the Bethnahrin Women Protection Forces (HSNB), an all-female Syriac-Assyrian paramilitary group under the umbrella of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), lines up as the group commemorates the fourth anniversary of its creation, in the countryside of the town of Tall Tamr in the northwestern Syrian province of Hasakah, on August 30, 2019. Delil SOULEIMAN / AFP

A member of the Bethnahrin Women Protection Forces (HSNB), an all-female Syriac-Assyrian paramilitary group under the umbrella of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), lines up as the group commemorates the fourth anniversary of its creation, in the countryside of the town of Tall Tamr in the northwestern Syrian province of Hasakah, on August 30, 2019. Delil SOULEIMAN / AFP

A member of the Bethnahrin Women Protection Forces (HSNB), an all-female Syriac-Assyrian paramilitary group under the umbrella of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), lines up as the group commemorates the fourth anniversary of its creation, in the countryside of the town of Tall Tamr in the northwestern Syrian province of Hasakah, on August 30, 2019. Delil SOULEIMAN / AFP

A member of the Bethnahrin Women Protection Forces (HSNB), an all-female Syriac-Assyrian paramilitary group under the umbrella of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), lines up as the group commemorates the fourth anniversary of its creation, in the countryside of the town of Tall Tamr in the northwestern Syrian province of Hasakah, on August 30, 2019. Delil SOULEIMAN / AFP

Members of the Bethnahrin Women Protection Forces (HSNB), an all-female Syriac-Assyrian paramilitary group under the umbrella of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), march in line as they commemorate the fourth anniversary of their creation, in the countryside of the town of Tall Tamr in the northwestern Syrian province of Hasakah, on August 30, 2019. Delil SOULEIMAN / AFP

Members of the Bethnahrin Women Protection Forces (HSNB), an all-female Syriac-Assyrian paramilitary group under the umbrella of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), march in line as they commemorate the fourth anniversary of their creation, in the countryside of the town of Tall Tamr in the northwestern Syrian province of Hasakah, on August 30, 2019. Delil SOULEIMAN / AFP

Members of the Bethnahrin Women Protection Forces (HSNB), an all-female Syriac-Assyrian paramilitary group under the umbrella of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), line-up as they commemorate the fourth anniversary of their creation, in the countryside of the town of Tall Tamr in the northwestern Syrian province of Hasakah, on August 30, 2019. Delil SOULEIMAN / AFP

Members of the Bethnahrin Women Protection Forces (HSNB), an all-female Syriac-Assyrian paramilitary group under the umbrella of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), line-up as they commemorate the fourth anniversary of their creation, in the countryside of the town of Tall Tamr in the northwestern Syrian province of Hasakah, on August 30, 2019. Delil SOULEIMAN / AFP

Members of the Bethnahrin Women Protection Forces (HSNB), an all-female Syriac-Assyrian paramilitary group under the umbrella of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), line-up as they commemorate the fourth anniversary of their creation, in the countryside of the town of Tall Tamr in the northwestern Syrian province of Hasakah, on August 30, 2019. Delil SOULEIMAN / AFP

Members of the Bethnahrin Women Protection Forces (HSNB), an all-female Syriac-Assyrian paramilitary group under the umbrella of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), line-up as they commemorate the fourth anniversary of their creation, in the countryside of the town of Tall Tamr in the northwestern Syrian province of Hasakah, on August 30, 2019. Delil SOULEIMAN / AFP

A member of the Bethnahrin Women Protection Forces (HSNB), an all-female Syriac-Assyrian paramilitary group under the umbrella of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), walks past graffiti reading out the group's initials in Latin characters during a commemoration of the fourth anniversary of their creation, in the countryside of the town of Tall Tamr in the northwestern Syrian province of Hasakah, on August 30, 2019. Delil SOULEIMAN / AFP

A member of the Bethnahrin Women Protection Forces (HSNB), an all-female Syriac-Assyrian paramilitary group under the umbrella of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), walks past graffiti reading out the group's initials in Latin characters during a commemoration of the fourth anniversary of their creation, in the countryside of the town of Tall Tamr in the northwestern Syrian province of Hasakah, on August 30, 2019. Delil SOULEIMAN / AFP

A member of the Bethnahrin Women Protection Forces (HSNB), an all-female Syriac-Assyrian paramilitary group under the umbrella of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), stands holding up a Kalashnikov assault rilfe during a commemoration of the fourth anniversary of their creation, in the countryside of the town of Tall Tamr in the northwestern Syrian province of Hasakah, on August 30, 2019. Delil SOULEIMAN / AFP

A member of the Bethnahrin Women Protection Forces (HSNB), an all-female Syriac-Assyrian paramilitary group under the umbrella of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), stands holding up a Kalashnikov assault rilfe during a commemoration of the fourth anniversary of their creation, in the countryside of the town of Tall Tamr in the northwestern Syrian province of Hasakah, on August 30, 2019. Delil SOULEIMAN / AFP

A member of the Bethnahrin Women Protection Forces (HSNB), an all-female Syriac-Assyrian paramilitary group under the umbrella of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), chants slogans as during a commemoration of the fourth anniversary of their creation, in the countryside of the town of Tall Tamr in the northwestern Syrian province of Hasakah, on August 30, 2019. Delil SOULEIMAN / AFP
Members of the Bethnahrin Women Protection Forces (HSNB), an all-female Syriac-Assyrian paramilitary group under the umbrella of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), line-up as they commemorate the fourth anniversary of their creation, in the countryside of the town of Tall Tamr in the northwestern Syrian province of Hasakah, on August 30, 2019. Delil SOULEIMAN / AFP
Members of the Bethnahrin Women Protection Forces (HSNB), an all-female Syriac-Assyrian paramilitary group under the umbrella of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), line-up as they commemorate the fourth anniversary of their creation, in the countryside of the town of Tall Tamr in the northwestern Syrian province of Hasakah, on August 30, 2019. Delil SOULEIMAN / AFP
A member of the Bethnahrin Women Protection Forces (HSNB), an all-female Syriac-Assyrian paramilitary group under the umbrella of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), lines up as the group commemorates the fourth anniversary of its creation, in the countryside of the town of Tall Tamr in the northwestern Syrian province of Hasakah, on August 30, 2019. Delil SOULEIMAN / AFP
A member of the Bethnahrin Women Protection Forces (HSNB), an all-female Syriac-Assyrian paramilitary group under the umbrella of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), lines up as the group commemorates the fourth anniversary of its creation, in the countryside of the town of Tall Tamr in the northwestern Syrian province of Hasakah, on August 30, 2019. Delil SOULEIMAN / AFP
Members of the Bethnahrin Women Protection Forces (HSNB), an all-female Syriac-Assyrian paramilitary group under the umbrella of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), march in line as they commemorate the fourth anniversary of their creation, in the countryside of the town of Tall Tamr in the northwestern Syrian province of Hasakah, on August 30, 2019. Delil SOULEIMAN / AFP
Members of the Bethnahrin Women Protection Forces (HSNB), an all-female Syriac-Assyrian paramilitary group under the umbrella of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), line-up as they commemorate the fourth anniversary of their creation, in the countryside of the town of Tall Tamr in the northwestern Syrian province of Hasakah, on August 30, 2019. Delil SOULEIMAN / AFP
Members of the Bethnahrin Women Protection Forces (HSNB), an all-female Syriac-Assyrian paramilitary group under the umbrella of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), line-up as they commemorate the fourth anniversary of their creation, in the countryside of the town of Tall Tamr in the northwestern Syrian province of Hasakah, on August 30, 2019. Delil SOULEIMAN / AFP
A member of the Bethnahrin Women Protection Forces (HSNB), an all-female Syriac-Assyrian paramilitary group under the umbrella of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), walks past graffiti reading out the group's initials in Latin characters during a commemoration of the fourth anniversary of their creation, in the countryside of the town of Tall Tamr in the northwestern Syrian province of Hasakah, on August 30, 2019. Delil SOULEIMAN / AFP
A member of the Bethnahrin Women Protection Forces (HSNB), an all-female Syriac-Assyrian paramilitary group under the umbrella of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), stands holding up a Kalashnikov assault rilfe during a commemoration of the fourth anniversary of their creation, in the countryside of the town of Tall Tamr in the northwestern Syrian province of Hasakah, on August 30, 2019. Delil SOULEIMAN / AFP
A member of the Bethnahrin Women Protection Forces (HSNB), an all-female Syriac-Assyrian paramilitary group under the umbrella of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), chants slogans as during a commemoration of the fourth anniversary of their creation, in the countryside of the town of Tall Tamr in the northwestern Syrian province of Hasakah, on August 30, 2019. Delil SOULEIMAN / AFP
A member of the Bethnahrin Women Protection Forces (HSNB), an all-female Syriac-Assyrian paramilitary group under the umbrella of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), chants slogans as during a commemoration of the fourth anniversary of their creation, in the countryside of the town of Tall Tamr in the northwestern Syrian province of Hasakah, on August 30, 2019. Delil SOULEIMAN / AFP
Members of the Bethnahrin Women Protection Forces (HSNB), an all-female Syriac-Assyrian paramilitary group under the umbrella of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), line-up as they commemorate the fourth anniversary of their creation, in the countryside of the town of Tall Tamr in the northwestern Syrian province of Hasakah, on August 30, 2019. Delil SOULEIMAN / AFP
Members of the Bethnahrin Women Protection Forces (HSNB), an all-female Syriac-Assyrian paramilitary group under the umbrella of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), line-up as they commemorate the fourth anniversary of their creation, in the countryside of the town of Tall Tamr in the northwestern Syrian province of Hasakah, on August 30, 2019. Delil SOULEIMAN / AFP
Members of the Bethnahrin Women Protection Forces (HSNB), an all-female Syriac-Assyrian paramilitary group under the umbrella of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), line-up as they commemorate the fourth anniversary of their creation, in the countryside of the town of Tall Tamr in the northwestern Syrian province of Hasakah, on August 30, 2019. Delil SOULEIMAN / AFP
Members of the Bethnahrin Women Protection Forces (HSNB), an all-female Syriac-Assyrian paramilitary group under the umbrella of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), line-up as they commemorate the fourth anniversary of their creation, in the countryside of the town of Tall Tamr in the northwestern Syrian province of Hasakah, on August 30, 2019. Delil SOULEIMAN / AFP
A member of the Bethnahrin Women Protection Forces (HSNB), an all-female Syriac-Assyrian paramilitary group under the umbrella of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), lines up as the group commemorates the fourth anniversary of its creation, in the countryside of the town of Tall Tamr in the northwestern Syrian province of Hasakah, on August 30, 2019. Delil SOULEIMAN / AFP
A member of the Bethnahrin Women Protection Forces (HSNB), an all-female Syriac-Assyrian paramilitary group under the umbrella of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), lines up as the group commemorates the fourth anniversary of its creation, in the countryside of the town of Tall Tamr in the northwestern Syrian province of Hasakah, on August 30, 2019. Delil SOULEIMAN / AFP
A member of the Bethnahrin Women Protection Forces (HSNB), an all-female Syriac-Assyrian paramilitary group under the umbrella of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), lines up as the group commemorates the fourth anniversary of its creation, in the countryside of the town of Tall Tamr in the northwestern Syrian province of Hasakah, on August 30, 2019. Delil SOULEIMAN / AFP
A member of the Bethnahrin Women Protection Forces (HSNB), an all-female Syriac-Assyrian paramilitary group under the umbrella of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), lines up as the group commemorates the fourth anniversary of its creation, in the countryside of the town of Tall Tamr in the northwestern Syrian province of Hasakah, on August 30, 2019. Delil SOULEIMAN / AFP
Members of the Bethnahrin Women Protection Forces (HSNB), an all-female Syriac-Assyrian paramilitary group under the umbrella of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), march in line as they commemorate the fourth anniversary of their creation, in the countryside of the town of Tall Tamr in the northwestern Syrian province of Hasakah, on August 30, 2019. Delil SOULEIMAN / AFP
Members of the Bethnahrin Women Protection Forces (HSNB), an all-female Syriac-Assyrian paramilitary group under the umbrella of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), march in line as they commemorate the fourth anniversary of their creation, in the countryside of the town of Tall Tamr in the northwestern Syrian province of Hasakah, on August 30, 2019. Delil SOULEIMAN / AFP
Members of the Bethnahrin Women Protection Forces (HSNB), an all-female Syriac-Assyrian paramilitary group under the umbrella of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), line-up as they commemorate the fourth anniversary of their creation, in the countryside of the town of Tall Tamr in the northwestern Syrian province of Hasakah, on August 30, 2019. Delil SOULEIMAN / AFP
Members of the Bethnahrin Women Protection Forces (HSNB), an all-female Syriac-Assyrian paramilitary group under the umbrella of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), line-up as they commemorate the fourth anniversary of their creation, in the countryside of the town of Tall Tamr in the northwestern Syrian province of Hasakah, on August 30, 2019. Delil SOULEIMAN / AFP
Members of the Bethnahrin Women Protection Forces (HSNB), an all-female Syriac-Assyrian paramilitary group under the umbrella of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), line-up as they commemorate the fourth anniversary of their creation, in the countryside of the town of Tall Tamr in the northwestern Syrian province of Hasakah, on August 30, 2019. Delil SOULEIMAN / AFP
Members of the Bethnahrin Women Protection Forces (HSNB), an all-female Syriac-Assyrian paramilitary group under the umbrella of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), line-up as they commemorate the fourth anniversary of their creation, in the countryside of the town of Tall Tamr in the northwestern Syrian province of Hasakah, on August 30, 2019. Delil SOULEIMAN / AFP
A member of the Bethnahrin Women Protection Forces (HSNB), an all-female Syriac-Assyrian paramilitary group under the umbrella of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), walks past graffiti reading out the group's initials in Latin characters during a commemoration of the fourth anniversary of their creation, in the countryside of the town of Tall Tamr in the northwestern Syrian province of Hasakah, on August 30, 2019. Delil SOULEIMAN / AFP
A member of the Bethnahrin Women Protection Forces (HSNB), an all-female Syriac-Assyrian paramilitary group under the umbrella of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), walks past graffiti reading out the group's initials in Latin characters during a commemoration of the fourth anniversary of their creation, in the countryside of the town of Tall Tamr in the northwestern Syrian province of Hasakah, on August 30, 2019. Delil SOULEIMAN / AFP
A member of the Bethnahrin Women Protection Forces (HSNB), an all-female Syriac-Assyrian paramilitary group under the umbrella of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), stands holding up a Kalashnikov assault rilfe during a commemoration of the fourth anniversary of their creation, in the countryside of the town of Tall Tamr in the northwestern Syrian province of Hasakah, on August 30, 2019. Delil SOULEIMAN / AFP
A member of the Bethnahrin Women Protection Forces (HSNB), an all-female Syriac-Assyrian paramilitary group under the umbrella of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), stands holding up a Kalashnikov assault rilfe during a commemoration of the fourth anniversary of their creation, in the countryside of the town of Tall Tamr in the northwestern Syrian province of Hasakah, on August 30, 2019. Delil SOULEIMAN / AFP

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