In the barren deserts in north-eastern Syria, a female Kurdish soldier and three of her comrades found themselves wounded, surrounded, and almost out of bullets.
Tasked with holding the line, Mizgin Rojda and her unit stood firm as a dozen Turkish-backed militia fighters ambushed them, shooting wildly.
“We had promised each other that we would fight to the end, no matter what,” the 29-year-old tells The Telegraph. “It was a fierce fight, we were injured, but we didn’t give up. We held out until reinforcements came.”
