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The Islamic State’s Problem With Women

It is telling that women feature heavily in the Islamic State’s rise and fall. While ISIS’s craven massacre of Yazidi women in Syria in 2014 helped put it on the map, by showcasing its violently misogynistic ideology, its gradual downfall is coming partly at the hands of Kurdish women fighting against it on the front lines.

ZURICH – It is telling that women feature heavily in the Islamic State’s rise and fall. While ISIS’s craven massacre of Yazidi women in Iraq and Syria helped put it on the map, its gradual downfall is coming partly at the hands of Kurdish women fighting against it on the front lines.

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