Brutal and merciless Daesh terrorists have pursued a policy of terror and genocide toward the Yazidis – a religious community among the Kurds living primarily in Iraq’s Nineveh Province. Jihadists have killed Yazidis and captured their women to be used as sex slaves. But some Yazidi women have taken up arms against their aggressors and are now scaring them to death.
Daesh captured the Iraqi town of Sinjar, predominantly inhabited by Yazidis, in August 2014 and killed between 2,000 and 5,000 men.
Above: Yazidi female fighter Asema Dahir, 21, keeps guard during a deployment at a site near the frontline of the fight against Daesh in Nawaran near Mosul, Iraq, April 20, 2016.
Above: Yazidi female fighter Asema Dahir, 21, keeps guard during a deployment at a site near the frontline of the fight against Daesh in Nawaran near Mosul, Iraq, April 20, 2016.
Some 200,000 civilians managed to escape form the embattled city.
Above: Yazidi female fighter Asema Dahir, 21, adjusts her cap inside a bedroom at a site near the frontline of the fight against Daesh in Nawaran near Mosul, Iraq April 20, 2016.
Above: Yazidi female fighter Asema Dahir, 21, adjusts her cap inside a bedroom at a site near the frontline of the fight against Daesh in Nawaran near Mosul, Iraq April 20, 2016.
Daesh gave the Yazidis an ultimatum to convert to Islam or face death.
Above: Yazidi female fighter Asema Dahir (L), 21, holds a weapon as she rides a pickup truck during a deployment near the frontline of the fight against Daesh in Nawaran near Mosul, Iraq, April 20, 2016.
Above: Yazidi female fighter Asema Dahir (L), 21, holds a weapon as she rides a pickup truck during a deployment near the frontline of the fight against Daesh in Nawaran near Mosul, Iraq, April 20, 2016.
Many women were enslaved and forcefully married to single Daesh militants.
Above: female Peshmerga fighters stand at their site near the frontline of the fight against Daesh in Nawaran near Mosul, Iraq, April 20, 2016.
Above: female Peshmerga fighters stand at their site near the frontline of the fight against Daesh in Nawaran near Mosul, Iraq, April 20, 2016.
The massacre led to the unfolding of Washington’s anti-Daesh campaign in Iraq in August 2014.
Above: Iraqi Kurdish female fighter Haseba Nauzad (2nd R), 24, holds her weapon as she is surrounded by comrades at a site during a deployment near the frontline of the fight against Daesh in Nawaran near Mosul, Iraq, April 20, 2016.
Above: Iraqi Kurdish female fighter Haseba Nauzad (2nd R), 24, holds her weapon as she is surrounded by comrades at a site during a deployment near the frontline of the fight against Daesh in Nawaran near Mosul, Iraq, April 20, 2016.
Some Yazidi women managed to flee and joined the Peshmerga – the Kurdish army which has dealt a painful blow to Daesh in Northern Iraq.
Above: Iraqi Kurdish female fighter Haseba Nauzad (2nd R), 24, and Yazidi female fighter Asema Dahir (3rd R), 21, aim their weapon during a deployment near the frontline of the fight against Daesh in Nawaran near Mosul, Iraq, April 20, 2016.
Above: Iraqi Kurdish female fighter Haseba Nauzad (2nd R), 24, and Yazidi female fighter Asema Dahir (3rd R), 21, aim their weapon during a deployment near the frontline of the fight against Daesh in Nawaran near Mosul, Iraq, April 20, 2016.
Those women and girls have seen their beloved ones massacred and humiliated. They are seeking revenge for murders, rape and beatings.
Above: Yazidi female fighter Asema Dahir, 21, carries food as she prepared to eat lunch with her comrades at a site near the frontline of the fight against Daesh in Nawaran near Mosul, Iraq, April 20, 2016.
Above: Yazidi female fighter Asema Dahir, 21, carries food as she prepared to eat lunch with her comrades at a site near the frontline of the fight against Daesh in Nawaran near Mosul, Iraq, April 20, 2016.
The female Yazidi fighters live in Spartan conditions.
Above: Yazidi female fighter Asema Dahir, 21, hangs laundry to dry at a site near the frontline of the fight against Daesh in Nawaran near Mosul, Iraq, April 20, 2016.
Above: Yazidi female fighter Asema Dahir, 21, hangs laundry to dry at a site near the frontline of the fight against Daesh in Nawaran near Mosul, Iraq, April 20, 2016.
Twenty-four-year-old Haseba Nauzad could have left for Europe when her husband proposed to pay human smugglers.
Above: Iraqi Kurdish female fighter Haseba Nauzad, 24, looks at a mirror as she adjusts her clothes in a bedroom at a site near the frontline of the fight against Daesh in Nawaran near Mosul, Iraq April 20, 2016.
Above: Iraqi Kurdish female fighter Haseba Nauzad, 24, looks at a mirror as she adjusts her clothes in a bedroom at a site near the frontline of the fight against Daesh in Nawaran near Mosul, Iraq April 20, 2016.
But she could not forgive Daesh for its crimes and insisted on fighting.
Above: Yazidi female fighter Asema Dahir (C), 21, stands behind a weapon with her comrades as they ride a pickup truck during a deployment near the frontline of the fight against Daesh in Nawaran near Mosul, Iraq, April 20, 2016.
Above: Yazidi female fighter Asema Dahir (C), 21, stands behind a weapon with her comrades as they ride a pickup truck during a deployment near the frontline of the fight against Daesh in Nawaran near Mosul, Iraq, April 20, 2016.
Women on the battlefield encourage male fighters and endow them with more strength, bravery and confidence.
Above: Yazidi female fighter Asema Dahir, 21, poses with a teddy bear in a bedroom at a site near the frontline of the fight against Daesh in Nawaran near Mosul, Iraq, April 20, 2016.
Above: Yazidi female fighter Asema Dahir, 21, poses with a teddy bear in a bedroom at a site near the frontline of the fight against Daesh in Nawaran near Mosul, Iraq, April 20, 2016.
Daesh terrorists fear being killed by a woman because they would not go to heaven, Nauzad said.
Above: Yazidi female fighter Asema Dahir (L), 21, jokes with her comrades in a bedroom at a site near the frontline of the fight against Daesh in Nawaran near Mosul, Iraq, April 20, 2016.
Above: Yazidi female fighter Asema Dahir (L), 21, jokes with her comrades in a bedroom at a site near the frontline of the fight against Daesh in Nawaran near Mosul, Iraq, April 20, 2016.
