Apr 8, 2021 • 36M

How 'The Daughters of Kobani' Defeated ISIS

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Matthew Gault
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When Islamic State’s capital, Raqqa, finally fell in late 2017, America wasn’t really paying close attention. We’d had nearly a year of turmoil here at home, and, in many ways, Islamic State was old news.

And if we weren’t paying that much attention to the fight, we paid even less attention to the fighters. So, today we’ll tell the story of the Kurdish m…

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