How Kurdish women soldiers are confronting ISIS on the front lines ... Now Kurdish women, who are part of what's known as the PKK Militia, are fighting back. 27-year-old Berytan is one of them.

Cicek was one of hundreds of young Kurdish female soldiers who have taken up the fight against ISIS. They’re part of the YPJ, or Women’s Protection Unit, ...

A Kurdish female soldier from the Syrian Democratic Forces rests after frontline action in November 2015 near the ISIL-held town of Hole in the autonomous region of Rojava, Syria.

For centuries, combat has been associated with men. Most societies maintain the assumption that women, being less aggressive and less physically capable than men, are unlikely to engage in combat; ...

North of Iraq, on the frontline with the female soldiers. In their sights the jihadist fighters from the so-called Islamic State. The troop of women Kurdish soldiers have been involved in attacks and ...

What we didn't expect to find was a society that -- unusual in the Middle East -- appeared to be dominated by women. A mile away from ISIS positions we met four young female soldiers. The oldest ...

A Kurdish woman activist, ... Khanzade Sultan, who ruled over two Kurdish principalities and commanded according to one historian an army of 30,000 soldiers, conducted raids against Iran.

Kurdish-Iranian documentarian Negin Ahmadi gathered unique frontline insights into the lives of female soldiers in the civil war in Syria in 2016. For her film, Dream's Gate, she took her camera ...

And soldiers often gave the Kurdish children candy or their Meals Ready-To-Eat (MREs). Best of all, ... One day, he saw a woman soldier, with blonde hair, and she seemed kind.

A prominent female Kurdish commander who has been credited with saving American soldiers in the fight against ISIS in Syria has been killed by a Turkish drone strike, the US military said. Salwa ...