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The Women Who Fought to Defend Their Homes Against ISIS

The Women Who Fought to Defend Their Homes Against ISIS Time 2/22/2021 Gayle Tzemach Lemmon © Courtesy of Members of the Women’s Protection Units Members of the Women s Protection Units in northeast Syria, July 2018 When I first asked the American special operations soldiers who among the fighters they worked with I should meet in Syria, one of the first names that always arose was Azeema. She came from Qamishli, a town in northeastern Syria, and was known for her relentless willingness to lead from the front, her swashbuckling manner, her chain-smoking ways and her wry sense of humor. She was part of the Women’s Protection Units, the all-women’s force that faced off against ISIS on the ground each day, fighting the men of the Islamic State room-by-room and house-by-house, and she had started fighting ISIS in 2013 before the group was officially born. In Kobani, a town few outside Syria had heard of before the Islamic State’s stunning string of win

The Women Who Fought to Defend Their Homes Against ISIS

The Women Who Fought to Defend Their Homes Against ISIS
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Book excerpt: The Daughters of Kobani

Book excerpt: ‘The Daughters of Kobani’ Gayle Tzemach Lemmon The Daughters of Kobani. (Penguin Random House) In 2014, northeastern Syria might have been the last place you would expect to find a revolution centered on women’s rights. But that year, an all-female militia faced off against ISIS in a little town few had ever heard of: Kobani. By then, the Islamic State had swept across vast swaths of the country, taking town after town and spreading terror as the civil war burned all around it. From that unlikely showdown in Kobani emerged a fighting force that would wage war against ISIS across northern Syria alongside the United States. In the process, these women would spread their own political vision, determined to make women’s equality a reality by fighting house by house, street by street, city by city the men who bought and sold women.

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