![]() Occasionally a YPJ woman spoke to the veiled women, a sea of black cloth punctuated by wary eyes and filthy children.Īs the morning dragged on, some YPJ fighters decided to see the enemy up close. Others adjusted their hair using their cell phones as mirrors (under ISIS, a woman who hadn’t kept her hair and face covered would have been whipped). ![]() As these fighters, known as YPJ, chatted, several took long drags on their cigarettes (it had been forbidden for women to smoke under ISIS). The guards stood over them, their triumph palpable.Ī few hundred feet away, female Kurdish fighters with AK-47s over their shoulders guarded women and children, presumably militants’ wives and offspring. The prisoners awaited transport to a detention camp that already held tens of thousands of ISIS loyalists and dependents. The two had surrendered to the mostly Kurdish defense force, YPG, as it routed ISIS fighters from Baghouz, their last stronghold in Syria. ![]() In a desert town in east-central Syria, two prisoners sat on the ground, guarded by about a dozen Kurdish men. This story is part of our November 2019 special issue of National Geographic magazine, “Women: A Century of Change.” Read more stories here.
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