Kurdish forces consist of both men and women amongst their ranks, fighting side by side against ISIL.
Kurdish forces consist of both men and women amongst their ranks, fighting side by side against ISIL. These are images of the women who stood their ground together with men against the advancing tide of Islamic radicals.
Kurdish Peshmerga female fighters march during a training session conducted by German military instructors in Arbil, the capital of the Kurdish autonomous region in northern Iraq.
Kurdish female fighters of the Women's Protection Units (YPJ) sit next to a pick-up truck supporting a heavy machine gun at a training camp in al-Qahtaniyah, near the Syrian-Turkish border.
A female fighter from the Kurdish People's Protection Unit (YPG) poses for a photo with her weapon in the Syrian town of Ain Issi, some 50 kilometres north of Raqqa, the so called 'capital' of the Islamic State.
A female fighter from the Kurdish People Protection Unit (YPG) poses for a photo on the front line in the northeastern Syrian city of Hasakeh.
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