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, ...

Thousands of women soldiers have come from Iran to join the Kurdish Forces in their conflict against ISIL. “It’s the duty of any human being to fight this enemy – ISIL a terrorist organization.

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; ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

The Kurdish militia said that its all-women unit had rescued an ISIS sex slave from the Al Hol camp. Watch the full video to know more about the SDF's women commandos who have played a key role in ...

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.

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 ...