Revolutionary Kurdish feminist leads assault on Raqqa

A revolutionary feminist who is inspired by Bismarck, Napoleon and Saladin is leading the assault on Raqqa, the capital of Islamic State’s self-declared caliphate.

Rojda Felat, a Kurdish woman in her thirties who has been battling the extremists for three years, is the joint commander of the offensive on the city. She leads 15,000 Kurdish and Arab fighters, backed by US special forces and coalition aircraft, under the banner of the Syrian Democratic Forces.

She said: “My main goal is liberating the Kurdish woman and the Syrian woman in general from the ties and control of traditional society, as well