“Personally, I wouldn’t want to say how many ISIS fighters I’ve killed so far. I don’t see them as militants. They are vile human beings. I have never wanted to kill any human being, but I know that if we don’t kill them, they will kill the children and rape the women.

It is true, ISIS is scared of female fighters. In fact it tries to avoid attacking positions with women in them. Some explain this by saying: ‘If they are killed by women then they can’t go to heaven,’ but I think this has more to do with the fact that they have never come across women as determined and as courageous as us.”

Kurdish YPJ Fighter