Kurdish women fighters battle ISIS with machineguns and songs
When ISIS insurgents fired mortar bombs at Iranian Kurdish women fighters holding a desert position in northern Iraq, the women first hit back by singing through loudspeakers. Then the women opened fire with machineguns.
A commander said ISIS—known to its enemies by the Arabic acronym Daesh—deliberately targeted the female unit with 20 mortars when the singing began.
ISIS prohibits singing and music. It has also imposed tight restrictions on women and took hundreds of them as sex slaves since sweeping through northern Iraq in 2014 and declaring a caliphate in parts of Iraq and Syria.
