The extraordinary story of the women who took on the Islamic State and wonIn 2014, northeastern Syria might have been the last place you would expect to find a revolution centered on womens rights. But that year, an all-female militia faced off against ISIS in a little town few had ever heard of Kobani. By then, the Islamic State had swept across vast swathes of the country, taking town after town and spreading terror as the civil war burned all around it. From that unlikely showdown in Kobani emerged a fighting force that would wage war against ISIS across northern Syria alongside the United States. In the process, these women would spread