Warrior Women Of Kurdistan Confront ISIS

Battle-hardened women fighting alongside Kurdistan's rugged Peshmerga are striking fear into the hearts of Islamic State fighters, many of whom reportedly believe getting killed by a female will bar them from heaven.

The women, fighters from the Kurdistan Workers' Party, also known as the PKK, told Stars and Stripes they have an intense interest in killing the bloodthirsty marauders who have beheaded Christians, raped women and sold females into slavery across a treacherous swath of Iraq and Syria.


"Everywhere they go they kill and do bad things in the name of Islam," said Zekia Karhan, 26, a female guerrilla from Turkey. "They captured a lot of women and they are selling them in Syria for $100. They rape women and behead them in the name of Islam."

Garden Update September 3

I'm harvesting pole beans and Brandywine tomatoes, and the Roma tomatoes are producing, but at a slower rate. The yellow squash plants look ok, but they're not producing very well. Same with the bush beans and eggplant. A real farmer would be pulling up the low producing plants, but I just finished a novel about North Korea, when starvation is ever present, so I'm not being cavalier. There was a scene where the police showed up to arrest a dissident, and half of the police search was focused on stealing whatever they could, including vegetables in the garden.