article_snippet: A young German woman has been killed fighting alongside Kurdish forces against the Islamic State in northeast Syria, a monitoring group has reported.
article_snippet: At least 40 Kurdish fighters and ISIS jihadists have been killed in the battle for Tal Tamr, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said earlier on Sunday.
article_snippet: During pre-dawn clashes with Islamic State militants, dozens of gang members were killed.
article_snippet: The Kurdish fighters died along with a former British soldier in battles with ISIS in an area southwest of the town of Tal Hamis, which Kurdish fighters seized from ISIS last week .
article_snippet: A young German woman has been killed fighting alongside female Kurdish Pershmerga forces against the Islamic State in northeast Syria, according to a monitoring group (file picture)
article_snippet: Women account for around 35 per cent of the fighting force of the Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG), numbering around 7,000, and receive the same training as Women male comrades.