Women join fight against Islamic State..........ALLAH MADAD

In northern Afghanistan, bereaved women join fight against Islamic State

 

  Gul Bibi, an Afghan grandmother well into her eighties, never expected to become a fighter.But now she is one of more than a hundred women in Afghanistan's northern Jawzjan province who have taken up arms against Islamist militants.
Nearly all of the women have lost a husband, son or brother to the Taliban or the newly active Islamic State in the province bordering Turkmenistan.
"I lost nine members of my family. The Taliban and Daesh (Islamic State) killed my five sons and four nephews," Bibi said by phone from Jawzjan. "I have taken up arms to defeat the terrorists so other people's sons won't get killed."
Determined to protect their families, the women approached a local police commander, Sher Ali, in December and asked him for guns and ammunition.