article_snippet: Ivana Hoffmann, 19, died on Saturday while fighting with the Kurdish Peoples Protection Units (YPG) near the Syrian town of Tel Tamr, YPG spokesman Nawaf Khalil said.
article_snippet: Hoffmann, a member of the Marxist-Leninist Communist Party (MLKP) in Turkey, joined YPG fighters about six months ago, according to a statement released by the MLKP.
article_snippet: Hoffmann, a member of the Marxist-Leninist Communist Party (MLKP) in Turkey, is the third Westerner - and the first female foreign fighter - known to be killed fighting with Kurdish forces against a monitoring group.
article_snippet: Fought to the last bullet': Hoffmannhas been killed fighting alongside Kurdish forces against the Islamic State .
article_snippet: a statement released by the MLKP referred to Hoffmann by her nom de guerre, Avashin Tekoshin, and said her died in pre-dawn clashes with Islamic State militants on March 7. '
article_snippet: Our comrade Avashin had been at the front using her weapons to resist the bloody onslaught of the ISIS gang against the Assyrian villages in Tel Tamr for days,' a statement released by the MLKP said. '
article_snippet: Our comrade Avashin fought to the last bullet together with the fighters of the YPG.'
highlights_snippet: Ivana Hoffmann, 19, died in battle for Kurdish-held Syrian town of Tel Tamr .
  