Women travelling to the lands of Syria to join Islamic State are no longer just seeking "jihadi brides" tag.  They are ready to take up the new initiations in logistics and intelligence as medics, according to military and expert sources.

Though the female presence in Islamic State's battles is a recent development with the radical Sunni Islamists imposing strict restrictions on women's dress and behavior and deeming their role as domestic, more from choose working at hospitals in the areas controlled by Islamic State.

Colonel Rafat Salim Raykoni, head of a military intelligence unit in the Iraqi Kurdish peshmerga forces battling Islamic State militants, said women fighters had emerged around the town of Sinjar, a frontline in the fight in northern Iraq.

"They are not many but they are starting to arrive on the frontline. Here in Sinjar they are very active," he told the Thomson Reuters Foundation.

High-ranking commanders in different areas of Iraq and Syria confirm the traces of Islamic State women around the battlefield. However, no causalities of female militants have been reported so far.

Pareen Sevgeen, the commander of a Kurdish women militia in Iraq, YJA Star, was fighting north of Sinjar earlier this year when her brigade intercepted communications of the jihadis.

"We heard a woman giving order to men. She was saying move there or here, go left or right. She was obviously a commander," she said. "Arabic is not her first language. Our sources on the other side told us she is from India."

- Manohar