article_snippet: The former Australian soldier was reportedly fighting for the Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG) in Iraq and Syria but was killed on February 24.
article_snippet: A former Australian soldier was reportedly fighting for the Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG) in Iraq and Syria Iraq and Syria Syria but was killed on February 24 .
article_snippet: "' It is believed the 28-year-old's remains are in an unstable area near the Iraq and Syria border.
article_snippet: It is believed the 28-year-old's remains are in an unstable area near the Iraq and Syria border .
article_snippet: The 28-year-old, from Queensland, served for seven years with Australia's Army Reserves before going travelling and becoming moved by struggle of ethnic Kurds against ISIS militants who have taken control of large parts of Syria of Iraq.
article_snippet: he fought in Iraq and Syria with the Kurdish People's Protection Unit, known by the acronym YPG, under the name Heval Bagok Serhed and was reportedly killed on February 24 in a small village near Shingal in Iraq, close to the border with Syrian Kurdistan.
article_snippet: Defence is aware that a former Australian Army Reserve member is believed to have been killed in northern Iraq while allegedly fighting with Peshmerga forces against Daesh,' the ADF said in a statement. '