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The  YPG International or People's Protection Units International (kurdish: YPG Enternasyonal) is a military brigade formed by foreign volunteers of the YPG. Was created in december 2016 under the name of Antifascist International Tabûr (AIT). The battalion fights alongside the Syrian Democratic Forces in the Syrian Civil War.

On June 13, 2017 YPG International reports that the brigade becomes an official YPG battalion. Its commander is the italian volunteer Karim Marcello Franceschi.

Involvement in the Syrian Civil War
The brigade was founded on december 2016 by the italian-morocan fighter Karim Marcello Franceschi who fought ISIL in the Siege of Kobane between 2014 and 2015. The battalion emerges by Franceschi as a proposal for western fighters arriving to join a specific military brigade in which a particular language is spoken predominantly as other brigades like the International Freedom Battalion what the language predominant is Turkish and it became an obstacle to communicate with the western fighters.

The brigade is composed mostly by communists, socialists and anarchists from Europe. They launched a statement in which mention their principles and causes, which highlights the common unity between communists and anarchists as an anti-fascist front against the Islamic State. The statement was released in several languages, including english, italian, spanish and basque.