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Members of the all-female Mother Aisha battalion sit in shooting position behind sandbags in a damaged house on the Aleppo Castle frontline January 3, 2015. This battalion, controlled by the Free Syrian Army, provides aid and security in addition to being a full military unit. The women who make up this force not only operate as fighters on the Old Aleppo frontline, but are also in charge of two field hospitals for injured fighters and a police station for women detainees. (Photo by Abdalrhman Ismail/Reuters)
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