The woman fighting IS in Somalia

与索马里伊斯兰国战斗的女性

The Documentary Podcast

2026-04-04

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The global activities of the Islamic State group are now believed to be run from the semi-autonomous region of Puntland in the north-east of Somalia, where IS fighters are entrenched in the caves and harsh mountainous terrain of the area. But many locals there do not support IS and are committed to fighting back against the group. For BBC News Somali, Sahnun Ahmed spent time embedded with the Puntland Defence Force, one of the groups resisting the militants, and witnessed the operations of their fighters, including one female fighter determined her children will not grow up in the shadow of IS.  Israel is home to around a quarter of a million Iranian Jews, who first began arriving in the country in 1948 and then came in bigger numbers following Iran's Islamic Revolution of 1979. Many in the community (including younger generations born in Israel) remain closely connected to their Iranian heritage, while embracing both cultures. The US and Israel's war with Iran, however, has left Iranian Jews in a difficult position, caught between homeland and adopted home. BBC Arabic's Michael Shuval has been talking to Iranian Jews in Israel.
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  • The global activities of the Islamic State group are now believed to be run from the semi-autonomous region of Pontland

  • in the northeast of Somalia, where IS fighters are entrenched in the caves and harsh mountainous terrain of the area.

  • But many locals there do not support IS and are committed to fighting back against the group.

  • For BBC News Somali, Sahnoun Ahmed spent time embedded with the Pontland Defence Force,

  • one of the groups resisting the militants, and witnessed the operations of their fighters, including some women.

  • When I spoke to Sahnoun, he first began by explaining ISA's impact on the lives of ordinary people in the region.

  • The group has carried out targeted assassinations using hit-and-run tactics.