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WOMEN FIGHTERS IN SYRIA UKRAINE: A YOUTH BETWEEN WAR AND PEACE

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Young Kurds in their twenties who joined the YPG (Kurdish armed forces). They take care of the control of one of the many checkpoints on the road leading from the town of Qamishlo to that of Derik.

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The Kurdish people, known for their independence demands, have particularly distinguished themselves in the fight against Daesh. The capture of Raqqa in 2017, the capital of Daesh, was a symbol of this. At the heart of this struggle, women have always occupied a place. In support of combatants or arms in hand, they have decided to establish themselves as a recourse against the obscurantism of Daesh in order to rebuild, on the ashes of the Caliphate, a peaceful and equal society.

In the midst of chaos, the women of peace are on all fronts and are looking to the future. By arms or not, Kurdish women have always taken part in combat. Participating in the care of the wounded or supplying the forces engaged, some have chosen to take up arms.

In the 1960s, Margaret George Shello, a Christian peshmerga nicknamed the mother of Kurdistan, distinguished herself in the fight against the Iraqi government.