The all-female militia that fought - and beat - ISIS

By 2014 ISIS had taken great swathes of Syria's northeast and Iraq's north, going through cities and towns at surprising speed, forcing women and girls from the Yazidi minority to be traded for rape between ISIS soldiers. Among Syria's Kurdish communities, all-female combat teams had formed, and their stand against the terror group at Kobani is where journalist Gayle Tzemach Lemmon, has drawn inspiration to tell their story. Gayle is also the best-selling author of Ashley's War and the Dressmaker of Khair Khana. It was a contact from one of her earlier novels who helped draw her attention to what the women in these units were doing. She's captured their story in her new novel The Daughters of Kobani, which is also set to become a new TV series by a production company owned by Hillary and Chelsea Clinton.