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Delil Souleiman

FORGOTTEN HISTORY: Armed syrian kurdish women stand guard over precious wheatfields | History Defined

An armed Syrian Kurdish woman volunteer keeps watch in a wheatfield (Credit: AFP)

Holding a weapon in one hand and fixing her scarf with the other, Yasmine Youssef patrols one of northeast Syria's vast wheatfields, a vital source of income in the country's breadbasket.

The 42-year-old is among dozens of volunteers, some of them women, helping the semi-autonomous Kurdish-led region protect the fields near Qahtaniyah, from fires and arsonists.

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