Kurdish Women on the Frontline
As the Islamic State continues its bloodly advance across Syria, Kurdish Iraq and the region more broadly, questions about the decades-old struggle for Kurdish self-determination have returned to international attention. At the same time, the fact that women have increasingly been on the frontlines of the fight against IS has not just captured curiosity, but has also fed fantasies of writers and readers in the West. Many commentators have depicted these women fighters as the most satisfying of all antagonists to IS expansion: What could be better than a IS soldier being killed by female peshmerga, thereby robbing him of the heavenly fruits of martyrdom?
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