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| Syrian Kurdish Female Fighters Expand Ranks Against IS |
| 2016-01-13 |
| [VOA News] Syrian Kurdish female fighters are expanding their ranks on the frontlines of the fight against Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... Death Eaters in northeastern Syria. In a remote camp near the Kurdish city of Afrin in northwestern Syria, the leadership of Women's Protection Units (YPJ) continues to recruit and train young women to prepare them for combat missions against IS. "We learn how to use weapons and we take military education classes," said Rozelin, a new recruit. At the onset of the Syrian crisis in 2011, the Democratic Union Party (PYD) established armed wings in the Kurdish-majority areas of Syria. The People's Protection Units (YPG) was the main group that fought in the area. The YPJ was another wing the PYD formed to include only female fighters. |
| Posted by:Fred |