Young Christian Lebanese women, who are members of Kataeb Phalangist party, show their skill in handling arms while they train in a village between Christian-controlled eastern port of Jounieh and the Christian village of Zahle in the west Lebanon on September 9, 1976. The Lebanese civil war erupted in April 1975. (Photo by Erich Stering/AFP Photo)

Female German army prisoners being checked in by German-speaking Americans at a German Women's Detention Building in 1945. The women were captured at the front on the 7th U.S. Army sector. (Photo by Getty Images/Keystone/Hulton Archive)

Yugoslav fighters, members of the patriot forces, during training at an Allied camp in Italy on February 29, 1944. (Photo by Getty Images/Keystone)

Female members of Egypt's “liberation battalions” train in the desert near Cairo for guerrilla warfare against the British in the Suez Canal zone on November 20, 1951. (Photo by AP Photo)

Young women learn how to charge an enemy with rifles and bayonets at their high school in Tokyo, February 18, 1937. Japan trained women and girls for auxiliary army units. (Photo by AP Photo)

Female Italian partisans in Castelluccio, Italy, keep weapons ready as they wait for their turn to patrol with the U.S. 5th Army on February 11, 1944. (Photo by AP Photo)

Members of the Women's Army Corps pose at Camp Shanks, N.Y., before leaving on February 2, 1945. The women were with the first contingent of the Black American WAC to go overseas for the war effort. (Photo by AP Photo)

Jewish women in the Palestine Auxiliary Territorial Service of the British Army learn how to use gas masks, October 14, 1942. Many of them were in service on the Egyptian front. (Photo by AP Photo)

Women help each other with bags at an embarkation port in the U.S. in this January 29, 1943, photo provided by the U.S. Army. They were bound for North Africa with the first detachment of the Women's Auxiliary Army Corps to be sent abroad. (Photo by AP Photo)

A female Cambodian soldier totes a machine gun into combat during an operation across the Mekong River from Phnom Penh in the Prek Tamak area of Cambodia on August 26, 1970. This region was the scene of heavy fighting between Cambodian troops and Viet Cong. The young woman is one of many who served as regular soldiers and medics in the rapidly expanded army. (Photo by Ghislain Bellorget/AP Photo)

Female soldiers with AK-47 rifles and bayonets march on the parade grounds at the Women's Military Academy in Tripoli, Libya, on January 18, 1986. At rear is a portrait of of Libyan ruler Moammar Gadhafi. (Photo by Giulio Broglio/AP Photo)

Female members of the North Korea Worker-Peasant Red Guards undertake air defense training in 1970. (Photo by AP Photo/Korea News Service)