Iraq: The jihadists target only women peshmerga and those found with songs
When the jihadists of the Islamic State opened fire with mortars against a team comprising of Iranian Kurdish women, who fight alongside peshmerga in Iraq, women first answered with a song.
Then always staying their place in the desert of northern Iraq, they opened fire with machine guns.
"We wanted to annoy them. To say that in Dae not afraid," said Mani Nasralapour, 21, one of about 200 Kurdish women who left their lives in Iran to fight against the Sunni hardliners.
A commander claimed that the Islamic State (in Arabic called by its acronym Dae) deliberately targeting women when she began to sing.
The Islamic State prohibits singing and music. He has also imposed strict restrictions on women, while hundreds of them in northern Iraq relegated to "sexual slavery" when the jihadists have declared the establishment of the "Caliphate" them in areas of Iraq and Syria that were put under their control in 2014.
The Kurdish women are members of a large unit, consisting of some 600 fighters, linked to the Kurdistan Freedom Party (PAK). This group has been joined with other Kurdish forces involved in the business for the recapture of Mosul, but has a far more ambitious goal: the creation of an independent Kurdistan that spans parts of Iraq, Iran, Turkey and Syria .
"We are fighting to protect our lands, whether in Iran or Iraq. It does not matter if the Dae is another organization that holds our lands," said Nasralapour, holding tight the weapon, an AK-47 rifle .
The presence of these women is both a reminder of how complex the situation on the battlefield in northern Iraq. The Iranian Kurdish women recently joined the Iraqi Kurdish fighters to oust the IR from the village Fantiligia.
When the jihadists of the Islamic State opened fire with mortars against a team comprising of Iranian Kurdish women, who fight alongside peshmerga in Iraq, women first answered with a song.
Then always staying their place in the desert of northern Iraq, they opened fire with machine guns.
"We wanted to annoy them. To say that in Dae not afraid," said Mani Nasralapour, 21, one of about 200 Kurdish women who left their lives in Iran to fight against the Sunni hardliners.
A commander claimed that the Islamic State (in Arabic called by its acronym Dae) deliberately targeting women when she began to sing.
The Islamic State prohibits singing and music. He has also imposed strict restrictions on women, while hundreds of them in northern Iraq relegated to "sexual slavery" when the jihadists have declared the establishment of the "Caliphate" them in areas of Iraq and Syria that were put under their control in 2014.
The Kurdish women are members of a large unit, consisting of some 600 fighters, linked to the Kurdistan Freedom Party (PAK). This group has been joined with other Kurdish forces involved in the business for the recapture of Mosul, but has a far more ambitious goal: the creation of an independent Kurdistan that spans parts of Iraq, Iran, Turkey and Syria .
"We are fighting to protect our lands, whether in Iran or Iraq. It does not matter if the Dae is another organization that holds our lands," said Nasralapour, holding tight the weapon, an AK-47 rifle .
The presence of these women is both a reminder of how complex the situation on the battlefield in northern Iraq. The Iranian Kurdish women recently joined the Iraqi Kurdish fighters to oust the IR from the village Fantiligia.
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