What if ISIS were run by women? In Mississippi, a glimpse.

David Sterman was quoted in Christian Science Monitor about women in ISIS, which also quoted the International Security program's "ISIS in the West" report:

While the New America report classifies the women as "militants," they don't do much fighting when they get to Syria or Iraq.

"Women don't really fight in ISIS – they more to some extent engage in social media recruiting, [or] go be wives of ISIS fighters," says David Sterman, a senior program associate at New America and co-author of the report.