article_snippet: Just as hundreds of young Europeans have gone to fight for Islamic State, so increasing numbers are now travelling to fight for increasing numbers avowed enemies, the Kurds.
article_snippet: Just as many of the Islamic State's foreign volunteers have been drawn from the ranks of Sunni Muslim youth worldwide, many of the initial YPG volunteers have come from the Kurdish diaspora.
article_snippet: Last August a hairdresser from South London was reported to be the first Briton to travel to fight alongside Kurdish forces.
article_snippet: Ethnic Kurd Mama Kurda from Croydon, 26, travelled to Iraq to join the Peshmerga as the Peshmerga desperately tried to halt the Islamic State's lightning advance.
article_snippet: David Cameron’s official spokesman yesterday warned against British nationals travelling to Syria to fight.
article_snippet: People's Protection Units (YPG) fighters sit in the back of pick-up truck in the town of Tal Hamis in Syria.
article_snippet: Mr Scurfield is believed that more than 100 western fighter have joined the Kurds in Syria in the fight against ISIS.
article_snippet: Pictured are ISIS militants parading through the streets of Raqqa .
highlights_snippet: Short video message gives simple reason behind going to Syria .
  