On the front line: Daniel Burke on patrol while battling ISIS in SyriaAfter three days of almost non-stop combat, former British Army soldier Daniel Burke was crouching behind a rooftop parapet in a town near the Iraq-Syria border. 'Daniel, 33, is recounting his closest brush with death during the year that he volunteered to risk his life by fighting ISIS in Syria. While in Syria, fighting with the Kurd-led Syrian Democratic Forces, he sent British counter-terrorist police a stream of intelligence material that he and his comrades had found and copied when they overran houses abandoned by the terrorists. Being accused of terrorism, Daniel says, hurt badly, considering that he had fought so hard against ISIS. The day he was almost killed on the rooftop in Hajin, when the bullet hit his helmet, had followed six weeks fighting on the front line.

Source: Daily Mail July 04, 2020 21:03 UTC