A graduate believed to be the first British woman to join the fight against Islamic State in Syria says she sees her comrades as “a last step towards Daesh being finished”.
(SkyNews)- Kimberley Taylor, 27, left the UK in March 2016 and joined the Women’s Protection Units (YPJ) – the all-female brigade of the YPG, Syria’s Kurdish armed forces.
Based in Rojava, a Kurdish autonomous region in northern Syria, Ms Taylor said she has been on the frontline in the push towards IS stronghold Raqqa.
Since arriving in Syria, Ms Taylor has kept friends and family updated with her movements on Facebook.
Ms Taylor, from Blackburn, says she initially travelled to Syria to write about “the women’s revolution” but decided to stay after just three days.
Four months later she joined the YPJ, learned Kurdish and studied politics, warfare and battlefield tactics.