A picture posted on Twitter by an IS-affiliated social media account purportedly shows members of an armed, all-female militia.
KUALA LUMPUR: Every evening, housewife Sofie nervously tunes in to the television news, hoping there are no reports of any of her compatriots killed in Syria and Iraq.
She is even more tense whenever Malaysian counter-terrorism police appear on screen with news of arrests or deaths of Malaysian suspects who joined the Islamic State (IS).
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