Winds has covered the ongoing jihadi campaign in Thailand for some time. One recent wrinkle - a female battalion of Rangers (frontier soldiers, not like the USA's elite Ranger unit). StrategyPage:

"The 300 strong battalion was formed for service in the south, where the Moslem population gets really angry if male soldiers search or manhandle their women. But there were also problems with pro-terrorist Moslem women carrying out demonstrations to provide cover for male terrorists. The Moslem women rioters would make a big media stink if they were dispersed by male soldiers or police. So the army asked for volunteers and soon had 300 women rangers. Some were widows or daughters of men killed in the south, or elsewhere in army service. But most were just women looking for something a little different."