October 2015In October the Kurdish forces began advancing with more determination and the Women’s Protection Unit, too, was sent to the front line. At that time, the ISIS fighters seemed to retreat much more quickly from the city’s eastern suburbs, and the Kurdish commander thought that was their weak spot. He deployed the women fighters there and for two days the unit advanced amid a barrage of gunfire.
On the third day, however, the ISIS soldiers launched a counterattack, the Women’s Unit was overpowered and, before the American helicopters could arrive to support the retreat, many young Kurdish women lost their lives. The ones that were captured alive fared much worse: they were r***d and then tortured, and their mangled bodies were dumped on the streets as a warning to any civilians t
