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ISIS massacres 90 Yazidis in Northern Iraq

there was a piece on the WSJ ( you have to subscribe) that said the peshmerga were aided by all female Syrian recruits ( jihadi?). I can't find any other reference but I did find this.

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a mandate that all women be fully covered in public and that they be accompanied by a male chaperone.

There are only women in this brigade, and we have given them their own facilities to prevent the mixture of men and women."

Though women are assuming new, more powerful roles across Syria – the U.N. now estimates that one in four displaced families in Syria has a female head – residents here say that any "girl power" wrought by the brigade is mitigated by the harsher restrictions they have been tasked with imposing on Raqqa's women.

ISIS created it to terrorize women,"
says Abu al-Hamza, a local media activist.
He says the brigade raided the city's Hamida Taher Girls School and arrested 10 students, two teachers and a secretary on the grounds that some of them were wearing veils that were too thin.
Others were accused of wearing hair clips under the veil, pinning them in a way that showed too much of their faces.

Al-Hamza says that the women subsequently spent six hours in an ISIS detention center, where they were whipped.
"After arresting those women and girls," continues al-Hamza, "they took them to ISIS prisons and locked them in for six hours and punished some of them with 30 whips each."

"I was walking down the street when a car suddenly stopped and a group of armed women got out," she says.
"They insulted me and yelled at me. They took me to one of their centers and kept me locked in a room.
Nobody talked to me or told me the reason for my detention.
One of the women in the brigade came over, pointing her firearm at me. She then tested my knowledge of prayer, fasting and hijab."

The fighter told Zainab she had been arrested because she had been walking alone, without an escort, and because her hijab was not worn properly
. "You should be punished for taking your religion lightly," she told Zainab, before threatening harsher punishment should she be arrested again

The brigade has created fear among the women and girls of Raqqa," she says.
"We've seen how they move, always watching women on the street, raiding schools, arresting students and locking them in for hours


Syria News | Syria Deeply, Covering the Crisis

so go figure..Islamic State (IS) jihadi, and Syrian..but again I don't know whom are the Syrian brigades?



I heard this morning the Kurds used the women to help take back most of the dam. Here is a small bit on them I had.

Meet The Women Fighting ISIS in Iraq....

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More from the New York Post:

Hundreds of mothers, sisters and daughters have taken up arms and devoted their lives to protecting Iraq’s Kurdish population against the threat of the Islamic State. Known as the women peshmerga of the 2nd Battalion, the group is made up of 550 female fighters led by Col. Nahida Ahmad Rashid, Barcroft reports.....snip~

Meet The Women Fighting ISIS in Iraq - Katie Pavlich
 
Thanks annata. I'm well aware of the fact that there was a lot of morphing going on in Syria with regards to the make-up of the various groups there sometimes co-operating with one another, sometimes bickering, etc.. And I don't believe the US ever had a complete handle on that. And that resulted in arms, arms pilfered from Gaddafi's military ending up in the hands of people that are now hurting others, innocent people, which means now we feel compelled to go intervene there!! This **** is ****ed up. I want to see us with a government that's smarter than that dumb ass Bush, and stronger than Obama, that works true security in the ME, and not advance policy that destabilises and inflames the region. Just one example, president Assad would have smacked down any of those jihadists coming into his country, had they not had the support of the US/West/Qatar, etc. and there are now 160,000 dead civilians in Syria. Not very humanitarian.

Also, there could be times that I would support US power projection, namely due to an unprovoked attack on our country, which includes our territories and embassies around the world, etc. though the key there being, unprovoked. Lets have co-operative policies in the ME. The free flow of oil can be beneficial for everyone, even the countries in the ME that are producers. But if other stronger countries or coalitions of countries are exploitive, greedy, well, that's a problem.
yes. Qatar/Iran/SA/ ..it's hard not to think of surrogates who use the factions in Syria towards there own ends.
By "power projection" I use the term as akin to keeping sea lanes open, or the pirates off Somalia, or ABM systems..not actual use of power.
I use it as meaning the "carry a big stick" like Teddy Roosevelt's quote ("speak softly but carry a big stick"). NATO is another ex. In practicality we guarantee Europe's defense,
even though Article 5 calls for mutual defense.

It's something we are tasked with - I'm Tibetan Buddhist Mahayana - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia . I'm in the US, but am keenly aware China's ambitions are just sphere of influence in Asia.
As are Russian in Europe. The US has it's sphere -like the Monroe Doctrine - but we also have global security concerns; something China and Russia cannot be rusted to accomplish.

American Exceptionalism -warts and all -it's just something we have to do,
 
yes. Qatar/Iran/SA/ ..it's hard not to think of surrogates who use the factions in Syria towards there own ends.
By "power projection" I use the term as akin to keeping sea lanes open, or the pirates off Somalia, or ABM systems..not actual use of power.
I use it as meaning the "carry a big stick" like Teddy Roosevelt's quote ("speak softly but carry a big stick"). NATO is another ex. In practicality we guarantee Europe's defense,
even though Article 5 calls for mutual defense.

It's something we are tasked with - I'm Tibetan Buddhist Mahayana - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia . I'm in the US, but am keenly aware China's ambitions are just sphere of influence in Asia.
As are Russian in Europe. The US has it's sphere -like the Monroe Doctrine - but we also have global security concerns; something China and Russia cannot be rusted to accomplish.

American Exceptionalism -warts and all -it's just something we have to do,

Good link. All those types of power projection, I generally haven't an issue with, although, such things always 'look' better, and are more legitimate when conducted by coalitions, even so, that has its shortcomings as well. Every country needs a DoD, however, some countries, chief among them is the US, have DoO's. and that is what leads to problems. We are in agreement that China doesn't presently have global military ambitions, but regional, and aim to deny the US any intervention in the China sea. The Pentagons last report to congress states that that's their position on China as well.
 
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Smoke rises from the direction of Mosul dam
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The Mosul dam is Iraq's largest and was overrun by militants on 7 August

BBC News - Kurdish forces 'break IS hold on Mosul dam'
Kurdish forces in northern Iraq are in near complete control of Iraq's largest dam after ousting Islamic State (IS) militants, Kurdish officials say.

Ground forces supported by US air strikes launched the operation to take Mosul dam on Sunday morning.

Kurdish sources said they were still trying to clear mines and booby traps from the area round the dam, a process which could take several hours.

This is why we need to keep this scum hunkered in caves in the hills. As they get bigger and better weapons they USE THEM ;) to kill more people and achieve greater objectives. Obama pulling out enabled this if he intended to lose Iraq why not run under that promise? "End the war in Iraq" my butt.

 
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