It is known, however, that there is at least one female member of crew flying missions with the RAF Tornados in the current campaign.The town of Rabia stands on the border between Iraq and Syria, and has been used to transfer men and weapons between the two halves of the jihadists' so-called "Caliphate". It also controls the road to Sinjar, the home of the Yazidi people whose dramatic expulsion and, in many women's cases imprisonment, at the beginning of August helped trigger Western intervention.