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  1. The revolutionary feminists fighting ISIS

    little-known town of Kobane in Syria’s north. Having overrun Mosul, Tel Afar and Sinjar in Iraq, as well as ... by Kurds as Rojava. What ISIS did not anticipate in Kobane was that it would encounter an enemy of ... revolutionary Kurdish woman, would become the symbol of Kobane’s victory. A fighter in the Women’s Defence Units ...

  2. Kurdish women's radical struggle for liberation ― more than a media sideshow

    lead an epic resistance in the northern Syrian town of Kobane. An estimated 35% ― around 15,000 ... is the woman commanding the resistance in Kobane and hundreds of women have died fighting IS. ... attention for decades. In fact, the mass mobilisation of women in Kobane is the legacy of the decades-long ...