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Australian fighting with Kurds against ISIS killed in Syria
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] An Australian who travelled to Syria to join Kurds battling jihadists has been killed, a monitor said Wednesday, adding he was the first Westerner to die fighting alongside the Kurds."An Australian man was killed in an assault on Tuesday by the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... [of Iraq and Syria] against a position of the Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG) near Tal Hamis in Hasakeh province," said Syrian Observatory for Human Rights director Rami Abdel Rahman. The Observatory had reported the fighter's death on Tuesday, but was unable to confirm his nationality until Wednesday. "Dozens of Westerners have joined the YPG's ranks. There are foreigners fighting on all sides of Syria's war," said Abdel Rahman. "They are volunteers, they don't get paid anything at all," he told AFP. "The YPG isn't actively recruiting foreigners, but people from countries like Canada, the United States, Britannia, Spain, Australia, Holland, Austria and La Belle France have travelled to Syria to join their ranks," he said. Posted by: Fred 2015-02-26 |
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