epa04404185 Members of the Kurdish female Peshmerga battalion recieve military training at a base near Sulaimaniya, northern Iraq, 17 September 2014. The Iraqi Kurdish women’s battalion formed in 1996 includes 550 female soldiers, led by Colonel Nahida Ahmed Rashid and according to media sources could see combat on the frontlines in the fight against Islamic State (IS) as have other female Kurdish fighters attached to militias in Syria and the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) from Turkey. EPA/MOHAMED MESSARA
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