Kurdish Women’s Militia Vows to Keep Fighting Islamic State
A Kurdish female militia that took part in freeing the northern Syrian city of Raqqa from the Islamic State group said Thursday it will continue the fight to liberate women from the extremists' brutal rule.
Soldiers of the Women's Protection Units (YPJ) take aim during fighting with the Islamic State in its Syrian stronghold of Raqqa, Aug. 12, 2017.
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Beirut (AP) -- A Kurdish female militia that took part in freeing the northern Syrian city of Raqqa from the Islamic State group said on Thursday it will continue the fight to liberate women from the extremists' brutal rule.
In a highly symbolic gesture, Nisreen Abdullah of the Women's Protection Units, or YPJ, made the statement in Raqqa's Paradise Square — the same place where IS fighters once carried out public killings.