The families of two British men killed fighting Islamic State in Syria have condemned a report urging the government to treat those who join Kurdish forces in the region as potential terrorists, insisting their sons should be remembered as heroes. But the report has been met with anger by the families of men killed fighting alongside the YPG, who say they are “shocked and hurt” by the suggestion that their sons died in the name of terrorism. The vast majority of YPG British foreign fighters were not aware of this fact. Scurfield and Evans are among four British men killed fighting Isis since the first volunteers arrived in Syria in the autumn of 2014. Then, on 5 July this year, 22-year-old Luke Rutter, from Birkenhead, was killed during an ambush in a suburb of the Isis stronghold of Raqqa.

Source: The Guardian August 20, 2017 16:31 UTC