Despite their grim and dangerous task, the women currently training with British soldiers want to look beautiful in case they are killed
Female Kurd soldiers fighting ISIS explain why they wear lipstick and make-up on battlefield
Despite their grim and dangerous task, the women currently training with British soldiers want to look beautiful in case they are killed
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Female Peshmerga fighters take a selfie in Arbil, northern Iraq
A brave all-female fighting force waging war against the murderous fanatics of ISIS has a deadly new weapon – make up.
The Kurdish militias in northern Iraq have earned the seething hatred of the terror group, which sees women as objects to be enslaved, raped and terrorised.
But despite their grim and dangerous task, the Peshmerga (meaning “those who face death”) women currently training with British soldiers to defend the vitally important Mosul Dam want to look beautiful in case they are killed.
Ahd Mohemed, 36, does her eyebrows, applies mascara and lipstick and paints her nails before strapping on her deadly assault rifle.
“I always put on lipstick before I go on the frontline,” she told the Daily Mail.
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Female Kurd soldiers fighting ISIS explain why they wear lipstick and make-up on battlefield
10:27, 30 Aug 2016
Updated 11:52, 30 Aug 2016
By Sam Webb
Despite their grim and dangerous task, the women currently training with British soldiers want to look beautiful in case they are killed
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Getty Kurdish soldiers
Female Peshmerga fighters take a selfie in Arbil, northern Iraq
A brave all-female fighting force waging war against the murderous fanatics of ISIS has a deadly new weapon – make up.
The Kurdish militias in northern Iraq have earned the seething hatred of the terror group, which sees women as objects to be enslaved, raped and terrorised.
But despite their grim and dangerous task, the Peshmerga (meaning “those who face death”) women currently training with British soldiers to defend the vitally important Mosul Dam want to look beautiful in case they are killed.
Ahd Mohemed, 36, does her eyebrows, applies mascara and lipstick and paints her nails before strapping on her deadly assault rifle.
“I always put on lipstick before I go on the frontline,” she told the Daily Mail.
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Female Kurd fighters have proved an effective force fighting ISIS
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Women Peshmerga of the 2nd Battalion in Sulaymaniyah, Iraq
“When we fight we want to look pretty. If I die, I want to die looking pretty.”
Soldiers from 1st Battalion, The Rifles, are giving three-week basic infantry courses to the Kurd female militias.
Lieutenant Colonel Oz Lane, the commander of the 80 UK trainers, said: “What the female peshmerga are really proud of is their war fighting skills.
“Now it is about showing them what they can bring in terms of operational capability on the battlefield, in addition to just being really good at fighting Daesh
As well as the threat posed by the women’s bravery and skill on the battlefield, the militants are terrified that dying at the hands of a female will stop them from reaching heaven.
The 2nd Battalion, a 500-strong force based in Sulaymaniyah in Kurdistan, northern Iraq, is led by Colonel Nahida Ahmad Rashid.
“It’s a weapon for us,” she told The Sun
They don’t like to be killed by us.”
However, she says her soldiers must never allow themselves to be captured by ISIS, usually contemptuously called ‘ Daesh ‘ in the Middle East, as they face torture and rape at their hands.
In fact, her fighters are always careful to leave a bullet in their weapons to use on themselves if it looks like they will be taken.
