New Delhi: A Syrian mother of seven was so determined to help fight against Bashar Al Assad that she divorced her husband to lead a 40-strong women's brigade.
Khowleh, the name she adopted after the uprising began, started the brigade in February 2012 and the women fought on the frontlines with guns.
When the revolt broke out in Deraa, a few kilometres from her home village of Hirak, Khowleh supported the regime of Bashar Al Assad, and dismissed the stories of unarmed protesters being shot dead in the streets.
It was a month after the rebellion started, at the funeral of a well-respected doctor who was killed while treating wounded civilians, that she realised the regime was gunning down innocent people for daring to question its right to rule.
She was so incensed that she joined demonstrations to help the revolution.
