"Every morning when veteran fighter Lt. Col. Nasreen Hamlawa walks into her office, the first thing she sees is her daughter's martyr poster. Snapped on the front lines outside Kirkuk just days before she was killed, Rangin Hamlawa, 26, dressed in classic beige peshmerga fatigues and holding a sniper rifle, stares hard into the camera.
"I'm glad my daughter died for a cause," Hamlawa said calmly, referring to the duty of the peshmergas (described as a "regional guard force" in the Iraqi constitution) to defend Iraq's semi-autonomous Kurdish region. "It's a cause, beliefs that I share," she said, "and now all I want is to return to the battlefield to continue that work."
Hamlawa was by her daughter's side when she was fatally wounded in October. A round of mortar fire launched by the Islamic State landed near their position, riddling Rangin's body with shrapnel. As Rangin was being prepared to be evacuated to a hospital back in Sulimaniya, Hamlawa's fellow fighters told her to stay by her daughter's side and travel with her to the hospital. But, Hamlawa says, she choose to stay on the front lines instead, "I stayed with my other daughters." Ten days later Rangin died…"
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