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GERMAN WOMAN KILLED FIGHTING WITH KURDS AGAINST IS GROUP
A German woman was killed during heavy clashes in northwestern Syria, officials said Monday, becoming the third known Westerner to be killed after joining Kurdish forces fighting Islamic State militants.
Ivana Hoffmann, 19, died Saturday while fighting with the Peoples Protection Units, known as the YPG, near the Syrian village of Tel Tamr in Hassakeh province. Born in Germany to South African parents, Hoffman was a member of the Marxist-Leninist Communist Party (MLKP) in Turkey and joined YPG fighters about six months ago, the party said in a statement. It referred to Hoffmann by her nom de guerre, Avashin Tekoshin, and said she died in pre-dawn clashes with Islamic State militants Saturday.
A video posted early Monday morning on a Facebook page memorializing Hoffmann shows a woman with her face covered by a scarf holding a weapon. “I decided to come to Rojava because they are fighting for humanity here, for rights and for internationalism that the MLKP represents,” she said in German, referring to the now largely autonomous areas in north and north-eastern Syria run by Kurds. “We are here as the MLKP to fight for freedom. Rojava is the beginning. Rojava is hope.”
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