Monday, 14 December 2015

PICTURED: Christian women who have left behind their jobs, studies and children to take up Kalashnikovs in fight against ISIS

After leaving behind her studies, Christian Ormia is now a member of the battalion called the "Female Protection Forces of the Land Between the Two Rivers'

Babylonia has no regrets about leaving behind her two children and her former job as a hairdresser to join a Christian female militia battling against the Islamic State group in Syria.The 36-year-old soldier from the Syriac Christian minority in northeastern Syria believes she is making the future safe for her children after joining a new all-female Syriac militia.'I miss Limar and Gabriella and worry that they must be hungry, thirsty and cold. But I try to tell them I'm fighting to protect their future,' she told AFP.
After leaving behind her studies, Christian Ormia is now a member of the battalion called the 'Female Protection Forces of the Land Between he Two Rivers'

Syriac Christian women, members of the battalion called the 'Female Protection Forces of the Land Between the Two Rivers' train at their camp in the town of al-Qahtaniyah

Syriac Christian women, members of the battalion called the 'Female Protection Forces of the Land Between the Two Rivers' train at their camp in the town of al-Qahtaniyah
Babylonia belongs to a small, recently created battalion of Syriac Christian women in Hasakeh province who are fighting ISIS.They are following in the footsteps of Syria's other main female force battling the jihadists -- the women of the YPJ, the female counterpart to the Kurdish People's Protection Units or YPG.


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