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Monday, March 11, 2013

Kurdish women combat battalion form Syria

Just a few countries that put their military women directly in the forefront of economic. Israel has long had military personnel were women in the body of its armed forces. In the photos they were wearing M-16 A2 features-240 M grenade launcher. (veteranstoday.com)

... women played a major role in the fighting in Syria ... "
Beirut (AFP)-about 150 Kurdish women in the province of Aleppo, northern Syria, which has been wracked by war the combat battalion, formed a Battalion named Rokan Martyrs, said Syria Observatory for human rights.

"While women currently struggle with the rebels, pro-Government forces and Kurdish militia forces regime, this was the first female battalion as it was," said the Director of the Observatory, hemp Rahman.

The Observatory issued an amateur photo of the combat battalion consists entirely of the woman, standing in line in front of their female leaders, complete with a uniform group.

"Now that women play a major role in the fighting in Syria," said Abdel Rahman told AFP.

A battalion of women posted at Ifrin, where at the end of 2012 to be the Kurdish rebel violence against Arab fighters against the regime of President Bashar al-Assad.

Bashar's forces pulled out from the region's Kurdish majority in 2012, and while the Kurds have been divided over the anti-insurgency regime in Syria, most have chosen to remain neutral in the conflict.

(H-AK)



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