So much for the argument that the phrase including women when discussing wartime casualties isn't downplaying male lives, but a recognition that women are "civilians".

From time to time in response to criticism that statements such as including women when talking about military causalities isn't really downplaying male life, but because women aren't generally combatants.

Here is an article that specifically talks about female soldiers, military combatants, and how they've inflicted casualties on their opponents (somewhat important distinction because some articles have used the yes, but they're not really militants because they've never been successful at inflicting any damage).

They still find the need,when talking about casualties, to specify that there were women killed.

"According to the Syrian Observatory, 66 people died in the fighting on Saturday, including seven Turkish soldiers. Among the dead, the Observatory said, were 13 children and seven women."

http://archive.is/OuoCL#selection-2283.0-2283.186