Between June 2015 and July 2016, I volunteered with the Kurdish YPG militia in Syria, fighting against the so-called Islamic State in the first major counter-attacks against that entity which led to its defeat in 2019. I served for most of that time as a member of the sniper platoon (in Kurmanji Kurdish “Tabur”) of … Continue reading Notes on YPG/YPJ Precision Rifles from Ed Nash