MAKHMUR: Female fighters all set to face ISIS militants in north of Iraq.

 

According to the media reports, the IS-led militants have overrun large areas of Iraq, and the group also controls significant territory in neighboring Syria, enacting its harshly restrictive and brutal interpretation of Islamic law in both countries.

Some 50 women are among the fighters on the mountain from the PKK, which launched an insurgency for self-rule in Turkey in 1984 and has been listed as a terrorist group by countries including the United States, but began peace talks in 2012.

Women have been fighting alongside men in the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) to wrest Mount Makhmur in northern Iraq back from Islamic State (IS) jihadists, whose treatment of women makes the fight especially personal for the dozens of female fighters on the mountain.