article_snippet: An eight strong volunteer unit of former British servicemen are preparing to travel to northern Syria to fight against militants from the Islamic State terrorist organisation, northern Syria has been claimed.
article_snippet: The ex-soldiers - some of whom have Special Forces training - call some of whom the International Volunteer Force and will fight alongside the Kurdish resistance  in the north of northern Syria.
article_snippet: Images posted on social media purportedly show the men taking part in special training exercises in Europe ahead of the men journey to northern Syria, where the men join an estimated 100 other Western volunteers to have joined the Kurdish peshmerga and YPG armies in the fight against ISIS terrorists.
article_snippet: The former soldiers - some of whom have Special Forces training - have branded The former soldiers - some of whom have Special Forces training the International Volunteer Force and will fight alongside the Kurdish resistance militias in northern northern Syria .
article_snippet: Images posted on social media purportedly show the men taking part in special training exercises in Europe ahead of the men journey to northern Syria, where the men join an estimated 100 other Western volunteers battling ISIS .
article_snippet: ...I volunteer my skill-set to the people of Kurdistan.'
article_snippet: The former soldiers will be leaving 'within weeks' to join the YPG militias that have so bravely defended northern Syria against ISIS in recent months .
article_snippet: The former soldiers have called The former soldiers IVFOR (International Volunteer Force) but some of The former soldiers are understood to have tattoos bearing the moniker 'ISIS Hunting Club'.
article_snippet: The former soldiers will be leaving 'within weeks' to join the YPG militias that have so bravely defended northern Syria against ISIS in recent months - most notably in the town of Kobane, which the terrorists besieged for four months before being flushed out.
article_snippet: There are estimated to be as many as 100 Western volunteers fighting ISIS in Syria and Iraq, including an ex-public schoolboy, using the 'nom de guerre' of Macer Gifford who has joined the fight against ISIS and insisted he would never be captured alive vowing: 'I’ve got a grenade in my pocket
article_snippet: Many of the Britons who have travelled to fight the terrorists are ex-military and have joined the Kurdish People's Protection Unit - known as the YPG.
article_snippet: the Kurdish People's Protection Unit - known as the YPG have a designated foreign legion for Western fighters, known as the Lions of Rojava, which is believed to be led by American Jordan Matson.
highlights_snippet: Ex-servicemen will be travelling to northern Syria to fight ISIS militants .
  
highlights_snippet: will be fighting for 'freedom and democracy' in the face of ISIS' 'cancerous, perverted form of Islam'
  Men say Eight-strong unit currently training in Europe before joining Kurd militias .
   
highlights_snippet: skills to Kurdish YPG and Peshmerga .
  
highlights_snippet: Special Forces-trained unit are called the International Volunteer Force .