Syria: Kurdish women soldiers against jihadists | Global 3000 Syria's Kurds are campaigning for their own autonomous region in the northeast of the country. They've largely managed to drive out Assad's troops. A third of the members of militia now fighting against radical Islamists are women. The Kurdish People's Defense Units, the YPG, were founded in 2012 to keep the civil war out of the region as much as possible.

Syria: Kurdish women soldiers against jihadists | Global 3000  Syria's Kurds are campaigning for their own autonomous region in the northeast of the country. They've largely managed to drive out Assad's troops. A third of the members of militia now fighting against radical Islamists are women. The Kurdish People's Defense Units, the YPG, were founded in 2012 to keep the civil war out of the region as much as possible.