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Life on the frontline - a young Peshmerga woman fighting 'IS'

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April 12, 2016

19 year-old Naishteman dreams about a life in peace, but a year ago she swapped her clothes for a uniform. She joined a women's troop of Kurdish Peshmerga soldiers in northern Iraq to fight the so-called Islamic State.