article_snippet: An eight strong volunteer unit of former British servicemen are preparing to travel to Syria to fight against militants from the Islamic State terrorist organisation, 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 Syria.
article_snippet: Images posted on social media purportedly show the men taking part in special training exercises in Europe.
article_snippet: the men were taken ahead of the men journey to 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.