article_snippet: German authorities say some 650 people have travelled from Germany to Syria and Iraq, to join Islamist groups.
article_snippet: But German authorities haven't said how many are estimated to have joined Kurdish or Christian groups opposing ISIS.
article_snippet: The head of Germany's military intelligence agency, Christof Gramm, told daily Die Welt in an interview published Monday that about 20 former German soldiers had traveled to the conflict zone.
article_snippet: A young German woman refers to Daesh, the Arabic acronym for the Islamic State group, and to Rojava, a Kurdish word that denotes the now largely autonomous areas in north and north-eastern Syria run by Kurds. '
article_snippet: Behind us is the territory of Daesh.
article_snippet: The Kurds don't do stuff like
article_snippet: The Kurds but The Kurds never drip about going on patrol,' Mr Scurfield wrote.