The fierce-looking 36-year-old in fatigues from the Syriac Christian boyhood in the northeast believes she is authoritative the approaching safe for her children.
"I absence Limar and Gabriella and anguish that they accept to be hungry, agog and cold. But I try to acquaint them I'm angry to assure their future," she told AFP.
Babylonia belongs to a small, afresh created army of Syriac Christian women in Hasakeh arena who are angry IS.
They are afterward in the footsteps of Syria's added capital changeable force aggressive the jihadists -- the women of the YPJ, the changeable analogue to the Kurdish People's Protection Units or YPG.
So far the new force is small, with about 50 graduates so far from its training affected in the boondocks of Al-Qahtaniyeh, aswell accepted as Kabre Hyore in Syriac, and Tirbespi in Kurdish.
But the "Female Protection Forces of the Land Amid the Two Rivers" -- the breadth amid the Tigris and Euphrates waterways historically inhabited by Syriacs -- is abundant with women acquisitive to prove their account adjoin IS.
It was in fact Babylonia's bedmate who encouraged her to leave Limar, nine, and six-year-old Gabriella and accompany the assemblage whose aboriginal recruits accelerating in August.
Himself a fighter, he apprenticed her to yield up accoutrements to "fight adjoin the abstraction that the Syriac woman is acceptable for annihilation except housekeeping and make-up", she said.
- 'Fear bound went away' -
"I'm a practising Christian and cerebration about my accouchement makes me stronger and added bent in my activity adjoin Daesh," added Babylonia, application the Arabic acronym for IS.
Syriac Christians accord to the eastern Christian attitude and adjure in Aramaic. They cover both Orthodox and Catholic branches, and aggregate about 15 percent of Syria's 1.2 actor Christians.
Before the action began in March 2011, Christians from some 11 altered sects fabricated up about 5 percent of the population.
The unit's aboriginal above activity was alongside the anew created Syrian Democratic Forces, a affiliation of Kurdish, Arab and Christian fighters, which afresh recaptured the cardinal boondocks of Al-Hol.
"I took allotment in a action for the aboriginal time in the Al-Hol area, but my aggregation wasn't attacked by IS," said 18-year-old Lucia, who gave up her studies to accompany the militia.
Her sister aswell abutting up, adjoin the wishes of their abashed mother.
"I activity with a Kalashnikov, but I'm not accessible to become an aristocratic assassin yet," the shy jailbait said, a board crucifix about her close and a appearance bandana angry annular her head.
Al-Hol, on a key avenue amid area IS controls in Syria and Iraq, was the aboriginal above achievement for the SDF, which has captured about 200 villages in the arena in contempo weeks.
It has accustomed air abutment from the US-led affiliation angry IS, as able-bodied as drops of American weapons.
Ormia, 18, begin action alarming at first.
"I was abashed of the babble of cannons firing, but the abhorrence bound went away," she said.
"I would adulation to be on the foreground band in the activity adjoin the terrorists."
- 'Not abashed of Daesh' -
The battalion's fighters alternation in an old comminute in a programme that includes military, exercise and bookish elements.
With its bound action experience, the assemblage for now focuses mainly on attention majority Christian locations of Hasakeh province.
Thabirta Samir, 24, who helps baby-sit the training, estimates that about 50 fighters accept accelerating so far.
"I acclimated to plan for a Syriac cultural association, but now I yield amusement in alive in the aggressive field," she said.
"I'm not abashed of Daesh, and we will be present in the advancing battles adjoin the terrorists."
Samir said both bounded and "foreign forces" helped alternation the women, after allegorical the allegiance of the foreigners.
In backward November, Kurdish sources said US soldiers had entered the boondocks of Kobane in arctic Syria to alternation Kurdish fighters and plan offensives.
Some women cited what is accepted as the Sayfo ("Sword") massacres in 1915 of Syriac, Assyrian and Chaldean Christians as affidavit for abutting the unit.
"We are a association that is afflicted by others," said 18-year-old Ithraa. She abutting four months ago aggressive by the anamnesis of Sayfo, in which Ottoman authorities are said to accept dead tens of bags of Christians in Turkey and Iran.
She said the association hoped to anticipate "a new annihilation like that committed by the Ottomans... if they approved to abolish our Christian and Syriac identity".
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