women's lives

Veiled women walk past a billboard that carries a verse from the Koran urging women to wear a hijab in the northern Syrian province of Raqqa.

Western young women who join ISIS can’t fight, but they sure can tweet

January 28, 2015Conflict

British researchers are studying Western women from afar who have migrated into ISIS territory to join the jihadist group. The women jihadists post often on social networks. And some say they aren’t content to be militant wives and mothers. They are itching to fight for the Islamic State.