Posted on 03/19/2018 9:20:19 PM PDT by BBell
A British woman fighting with a Kurdish armed unit has died in Syria, her father has said.
Anna Campbell, 26, from Lewes, East Sussex, died on March 15 in Afrin while with the Kurdish Women's Protection Units, the YPJ.
It is feared she was killed by Turkish airstrikes.
Ms Campbell - who had dyed her fair hair black so she would not stand out - is the first British woman to have been killed in Syria with the Kurds and the first Briton to be killed in the battle for Afrin.
Seven other Britons have died in the country while fighting alongside the groups.
Ms Campbell's father, Dirk, told the BBC she "wanted to create a better world and she would do everything in her power to do that".
He added: "I told her of course that she was putting her life in danger, which she knew full well she was doing. I feel I should have done more to persuade her to come back, but she was completely adamant."
The YPJ is an all-female brigade of the Kurdish People's Protection Units YPG, which has around 50,000 Kurdish men and women fighting against Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (Isil) in northern Syria.
The group has been defending the Kurdish-majority city of Afrin from Turkish forces backed by Syrian rebels after they launched an offensive in mid-January.
Ankara considers the YPG a terrorist group, an offshoot of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) which has led an insurgency in Turkey for decades.
Ms Campbell had been qualified plumber living in Bristol before she left to join the Kurdish militia in Syria.
Her friends and commanders are thought to have tried to dissuade her from going, saying it was too dangerous.
He said his daughter was an "incredibly principled, brave, determined, committed
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Exactly. She WAS Antifa. She now fought and died bravely fighting the Izlamik state
The Turks are attacking Kurds. Assad is a secular mosnter — why are you supporting AlQaeda against him?
Assad is an Alawite and his regime allowed various religions including Christianity and Yazidism to live and pray peacefully.
I am supporting the Alawites wish for peace, you are supporting the very warmongering Assad who sponsored Al Qaeda in Iraq to kill Iraqi Shias and to control the Alawite population.
Assad bombed Christians in Lebanon and persecuted Christians in Syria. It is well known fact he set up a KGB like collaborating false church in Syria.
He was and still is a dictator, for goodness sakes.
PM Netanyahu has announced that Israeli government considers PKK a terrorist group. But Israel endorses an independent Kurdish state. (It has given Iran, Turkey, Iraq a good chance to accused Iraqi Kurdistan leaders of being agents of Zionists).
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