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25 kwi 2021 · The Medinan Nusaybah bint Ka'ab was one of the first women converts of the city. She would famously fight alongside Prophet Muhammad at the Battle of Uhud. — Ali A Olomi (@aaolomi) April 21, 2021. Another contemporary of Muhammad, Khawlah bint al-Azwar was a legendary warrior.
The Women's Protection Units [a] or Women's Defense Units is an all-female militia involved in the Syrian civil war. [9] The YPJ is part of the Syrian Democratic Forces, the armed forces of Rojava, and is closely affiliated with the male-led YPG. [10]
18 sie 2021 · Tzemach Lemmon takes us into one of these conflicts, that of the fighters of the Kurdish Women’s Protection Unit (YPJ), who were armed by the US in their war against Islamic State (Isis) jihadis...
22 lut 2021 · In Kobani, a town few outside Syria had heard of before the Islamic State’s stunning string of wins in 2014, Azeema came to lead women and men in the fight against the extremists of ISIS who...
15 lut 2021 · The women of the YPJ saw firsthand the savagery of the Islamic State fighters who raped, killed, and, in some cases, beheaded women, including their friends.
22 lut 2021 · Amna Nawaz: In the years-long battle to retake Northeastern Syria from ISIS, a small, but powerful band of fighters led the way, the women of the YPJ, a Syrian Kurdish force. They fought...
Bestselling author and senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations Gayle Tzemach Lemmon speaks to Al-Monitor about her new book, The Daughters of Kobani, which tells the story of the women who fought on the front lines of the war against the Islamic State in Syria.
