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src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/a4/Al-Khansaa_Media_Brigade.jpg/200px-Al-Khansaa_Media_Brigade.jpg" decoding="async" width="200" height="200" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/a4/Al-Khansaa_Media_Brigade.jpg 1.5x" data-file-width="256" data-file-height="256" /></a></span><div class="infobox-caption">Official emblem of the Al-Khansaa Media Brigade</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Leaders</th><td class="infobox-data agent"><a href="/wiki/Fatiha_Mejjati" title="Fatiha Mejjati">Fatiha el-Mejjati</a><sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><span class="nowrap">Dates of operation</span></th><td class="infobox-data">February 2014<sup id="cite_ref-FoxfemalepoliceISIS_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FoxfemalepoliceISIS-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>– Present (Largely inactive since 2019)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Active regions</th><td class="infobox-data label"><a href="/wiki/Territory_of_the_Islamic_State" title="Territory of the Islamic State">Islamic State</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Size</th><td class="infobox-data">60<sup id="cite_ref-FoxfemalepoliceISIS_3-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FoxfemalepoliceISIS-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> (2014)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Part of</th><td class="infobox-data"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/58/Islamic_State_flag.svg/20px-Islamic_State_flag.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/58/Islamic_State_flag.svg/31px-Islamic_State_flag.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/58/Islamic_State_flag.svg/40px-Islamic_State_flag.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1000" data-file-height="750" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Islamic_State" title="Islamic State">Islamic State</a></td></tr></tbody></table> <p>The <b>Al-Khansaa Brigade</b> (<a href="/wiki/Arabic_language" class="mw-redirect" title="Arabic language">Arabic</a>: <span lang="ar" dir="rtl">لواء الخنساء</span>) was an all-women police or religious enforcement unit of the <a href="/wiki/Jihadist" class="mw-redirect" title="Jihadist">jihadist</a> group <a href="/wiki/Islamic_State" title="Islamic State">Islamic State</a> (IS), operating in its <i>de facto</i> capital of <a href="/wiki/Raqqa" title="Raqqa">Raqqa</a> and <a href="/wiki/Mosul" title="Mosul">Mosul</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-syriadirect_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-syriadirect-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Al-Khansaa_Brigade&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: History"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Formed in 2014 and initially consisting of around sixty women, the brigade was used to enforce Sharia law, mainly in IS-occupied Raqqa and Mosul, but also in refugee camps as IS territory collapsed.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The group was probably named after <a href="/wiki/Al-Khansa" class="mw-redirect" title="Al-Khansa">Al-Khansa</a>, a female <a href="/wiki/Arabic_poetry" title="Arabic poetry">Arabic poet</a> from the earliest days of Islam.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It was unique in the Muslim world as, in other regimes with similar systems of <a href="/wiki/Islamic_religious_police" title="Islamic religious police">religious police</a> (such as Saudi Arabia), only men are permitted to enforce <a href="/wiki/Hisbah" class="mw-redirect" title="Hisbah">hisbah</a> among women.<sup id="cite_ref-gilsinan_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-gilsinan-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>After initially being set up to enable men disguised as women to be identified through searches at checkpoints, the group's role was expanded to police and punish women according to IS regulations, with the size of the group expanding to include 1000 women.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-:1_9-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:1-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> An IS official, Abu Ahmad, said in 2014, "We have established the brigade to raise awareness of our religion among women, and to punish women who do not abide by the law."<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The outfit has also been called IS's 'moral police'.<sup id="cite_ref-gilsinan_7-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-gilsinan-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-:1_9-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:1-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Women who went out without a male chaperone or were not fully covered in public were subject to arrests and beatings by Al-Khansaa.<sup id="cite_ref-gilsinan_7-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-gilsinan-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>An example of crimes punished and sentences administered by al-Khansaa were those for two women in Raqqa in 2015, who received 20 lashes for wearing form-fitting abayas, five for wearing makeup underneath their abayas, and another five for "not being meek enough when detained".<sup id="cite_ref-MOAVENI-21-11-2015_11-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-MOAVENI-21-11-2015-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The brigade had its own facilities to enforce <a href="/wiki/Islam_and_gender_segregation" title="Islam and gender segregation">sex segregation</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-gilsinan_7-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-gilsinan-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Its members were aged between 18 and 25, receiving a monthly salary of <a href="/wiki/Syrian_pound" title="Syrian pound">LS</a> 25,000.<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> According to <a href="/wiki/Defector" class="mw-redirect" title="Defector">defectors</a> interviewed by <i><a href="/wiki/Sky_News" title="Sky News">Sky News</a></i>, al-Khansa Brigade included many foreign women, and recruits were "trained for a month". Their pay is estimated to be "between £70 and £100 [ <a href="/wiki/Pound_sterling" title="Pound sterling">STG</a> ] per month". According to one source hostile to IS, women were not allowed to drive cars or carry weapons, but women in the Khansaa Brigade "can do both".<sup id="cite_ref-syriadirect_4-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-syriadirect-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In April 2017 the group released a recruitment video for female <a href="/wiki/Hacker" title="Hacker">hackers</a> claiming to have hacked over 100 social media accounts over the previous month.<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> According to <i><a href="/wiki/Iraqi_News" title="Iraqi News">Iraqi News</a></i>, in 2017 Al-Khansaa members were used as snipers to defend IS-held Mosul against assaults by <a href="/wiki/Iraqi_security_forces" title="Iraqi security forces">Iraq's security forces</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Though IS has not held any territory since 2019, there have been reports of the group's members infiltrating refugee camps in Iraq, with some of these reports having come as late as 2021.<sup id="cite_ref-:1_9-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:1-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-:0_15-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Activities">Activities</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Al-Khansaa_Brigade&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Activities"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The Brigade has been known for their brutal violence against women. They oversee brothels of enslaved Yazidi women and search women at checkpoints.<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The Al-Khansaa Brigade is instrumental in disseminating ISIS propaganda and recruiting foreign militants.<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Al-Khansaa_Brigade&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_armed_groups_in_the_Syrian_Civil_War" class="mw-redirect" title="List of armed groups in the Syrian Civil War">List of armed groups in the Syrian Civil War</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Women_in_warfare_and_the_military_(2000%E2%80%93present)" title="Women in warfare and the military (2000–present)">Women in warfare and the military (2000–present)</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Al-Khansaa_Brigade&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output 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