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Al Jazeera
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Charlotte Bellis

Kurdish women volunteer to protect crops from ISIL

Kurdish women volunteer to protect crops from ISIL

Kurdish women have formed a group called Community Protection Forces to guard crops against ISIL (ISIS) arsonists.

Last year, the group burned tens of thousands of acres of wheat and barley fields across northern Syria and Iraq.

 

Al Jazeera’s Charlotte Bellis reports.

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