THE LAST HONEY HUNTER
ABOVE LEFT
Lifting a child while
working crowd control,
a Kurdish security force
commander, Sheikha
Ibrahim, 33, picks her
way through throngs of
refugees at the al-Hol
camp in northern Syria.
Kurds run the camp,
which has taken in
thousands of women,
many of them with
children, as they sur-
rendered or fled from
ISIS strongholds.
TOP
At a secret location in
northern Syria, female
Kurdish fighters assemble
at attention, weapons
on display—their way of
marking this year’s Inter-
national Women’s Day.BOTTOM
A soldiers’ breakfast
in Derik, by the Turkish
border: olives, cheese,
yogurt, bread. The wall
photo honors three col-
leagues killed in combat.IN THE FIGHT 147