Women on the frontlines in Syria and Iraq against ISIS.
http://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/other/isis-fight-women-battling-militants-on-the-front-lines-in-syria-iraq/ar-BBbanTa?ocid=ASUDHPAs ISIS preach an extreme form of Islam in which women may only leave the house if absolutely necessary, since April more than 10,000 Kurdish women have enlisted to fight in all female combat units, an unusual phenomenon in the Muslim world in which warfare is often associated with manhood, and have proven their selves just as brave and tenacious as any man in their major role against the ISIS.
Afshin Kobani, a teacher just over a year ago is now a commander of a mixed gender unit in the battle for Kobane that has raged for over a month now, surrounded by ISIS on the east, south and west and with the Turkish border on the north.
"I lost many friends to this, and I decided there was a need to join up," said Kobani, who declined to reveal her birth name. "This is our land — our own — and if we don't do it, who else will?"
Deilar Kanj Khamis, better know by her military name as Arin Mirkan, earlier this month outside Kobane took her own life with explosives, killing 10 ISIS fighters. The Kurdish fighters had to withdraw from the strategic hill south of the town, but Arin Mirkan stayed behind, attacking ISIS fighters with bullets and grenades as they closed in, and just as they surrounded her she set off the explosives strapped to her body. The Kurdish fighters then retook the hill, but lost it again Wednesday.
"It's not strange that women are fighting," said Wahida Kushta, an elderly woman who recently helped prepare the body of a young female fighter, 20-year-old Hanim Dabaan, for burial. "There is no difference between a lion and a lioness."
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