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“Lamya’s Poem” centers around a Syrian refugee girl named Lamya who draws strength from the verses of ancient poet Rumi after violence forces her to flee from her country. The animated film ...
Women's wing of NDF in 2013. Since January 2013, the NDF had a 500-strong women's wing called "Lionesses of National Defense", which operates checkpoints in the Homs area. [34] The women are trained to use Kalashnikovs, heavy machine guns and grenades, and taught to storm and control checkpoints. [35] The largest female group belong to Homs NDF.
Mohja Kahf (Arabic: مهجة قحف, born 1967) is a Syrian-American poet, novelist, and professor. She authored Hagar Poems, which won honorable mention in the 2017 Book Awards of the Arab American National Museum.
Female soldiers in Eritrea played a major role in both the war, the Eritrean independence and the border dispute with Ethiopia. During the Eritrean war of independence more than 30% of the Eritrean military were women. They served in direct combat operations. Eritrea is one of the few nations in the world where women fight side by side with men.
The women went on to play a leading role in retaking the cities of Kobani and Raqqa from ISIS. They have attracted foreign fighters from Western countries, like Germany and England. And according ...
A Syrian military policeman standing as his unit prepares for the arrival of a visiting envoy during the Gulf War. The breakup of the Soviet Union — long the principal source of training, material, and credit for the Syrian forces slowed Syria's ability to acquire modern military equipment. It had an arsenal of surface-to-surface missiles.
Thousands of women rallied in the northeastern Syrian city of Qamishli on Monday to demand the new Islamist rulers in Damascus respect women's rights and to condemn Turkish-backed military ...
The film centres on Lamya, a young Syrian girl who has left her hometown of Aleppo as a refugee during the Syrian civil war, who finds solace in her inner fantasy life as she reads and is inspired by the poetry of Rumi. [1]