Female Out Front

Col. Rashid reviews the troops.                                                                    AP

Clearly, it is women and girls who have the most to lose when a group like ISIS comes to power. In the Kurdish north of Iraq, women have been fighting against that eventuality alongside their male counterparts. In fact, there is an all-woman unit, and a different unit is led by a female colonel (story, link to audio version): http://www.pri.org/stories/2014-08-07/meet-female-colonel-leading-kurdish-forces-battle-against-isis