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Khawla bint al-Azwar (Arabic: خولة بنت الازور; died 639), was an Arab Muslim warrior in the service of the Rashidun Caliphate. She played a major role in the Muslim conquest of the Levant, and fought alongside her brother Dhiraar. She has been described as one of the greatest female soldiers in history.
Malik-Shah, along with the vizier Nizam al-Mulk, tried to unite Muslims of the world and fought many wars against anti Islamic fitna movement called Batiniyya, he also built many madrasahs. He is considered one of the greatest Muslim leaders of all time. Tughril Beg: founder of the Seljuq Dynasty. He united many Turkmen warriors of the Central ...
Arin Mirkan (Kurdish: Arîn Mîrkan; born Deilar Genj Khamis) was a female fighter in the Women's Protection Units (YPJ) who died fighting against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) during the Siege of Kobanî on October 5, 2014. [1] She fought on Mishtanour Hill with Rojda Felat, who later became the general commander of the YPJ . [2]
Women fulfilled a number of different functions during the Algerian War (1954–1962). The majority of Muslim women who became active participants did so on the side of the National Liberation Front (FLN). The French included some women, both Muslim and French, in their war effort, but they were not as fully integrated, nor were they charged ...
One year after the U.S. pullout, these women who served in Afghanistan's security units are among the most endangered — even outside of Afghanistan. Meet a woman we're calling "Fatima" for her ...
The YPJ was founded as a strictly women's organization on 4 April 2013 [12] with the first battalion formed in Jindires [13] and later expanded its activities towards the Kobane and Jazira cantons. [14] All female fighters who were previously part of the YPG mixed units automatically became members of the YPJ.
Afghan women weep outside Edrak University in Kabul, after Taliban security forces enforced a higher education ban for women by blocking their access to universities on Wednesday, Dec. 21, 2022.
Beginning in 2012, dozens of girls and women traveled to Iraq and Syria to join the Islamic State (IS), becoming brides of Islamic State fighters. While some traveled willingly, including three British schoolgirls known as the Bethnal Green trio, [1] [2] others were brought to Iraq and Syria as minors by their parents or family or forcefully.