Female Kurdish Fighters On The Lookout For Is Extremists
Female Kurdish Fighters On The Lookout For Is Extremists
Female Kurdish Fighters On The Lookout For Is Extremists

Female Kurdish fighters are on the lookout for Islamic extremists to get their revenge


'See you on the front line tomorrow': Danish woman, 20, drops out of college to join Kurdish fighters battling ISIS in Kobane

A Danish woman has become the latest Westerner to travel to the besieged Syrian city of Kobane and join Kurdish forces bravely battling Islamic State militants.

Joanna Palani, a 20-year-old of Kurdish descent, is understood to have written a message on her Facebook page describing a minor foot injury she picked up during a 'hard' attack on the jihadis.

Minutes earlier she had updated the page with a photograph of herself calmly smiling while wearing military fatigues, a bullet proof vest and carrying a large assault rifle - threatening ISIS militants with the words: 'See you on the front line tomorrow'.

Ms Palani has become the latest Westerner to join the fight against ISIS in Kobane, where Syrian Kurds assisted by Iraqi Peshmerga troops and US and Arab coalition warplanes have managed to force hundreds of militants out of the centre of the city.

Details of Ms Palani's journey to fight ISIS in Syria were reported by the Danish newspaper BT.

Less than a month ago she had made a gave an interview to Politiken saying that she was dropping out mid-way through her college course and intended to join the fight against ISIS in Kobane.

It is likely Ms Palani, who has lived in Denmark since she was three-years-old, has joined the Kurdish YPJ regiment - the all-female force of the better known YPG (People's Protection Unit).

Both groups are affiliated with the PKK (Kurdistan Workers' Party), which has been designated a terror group by NATO, but Ms Palani makes it clear that she does not agree with this assessment.

'The Kurds are fighting for democracy and Western values,' she was quoted as saying.

'If I get captured or killed, I will be proud of why I was killed. If I was afraid of the consequences of going down there, I would not consider it,' she reportedly added.

In her earlier interview with Politiken before she left for Syria, Ms Palani said she would do exactly the same thing had Denmark come under attack by Islamic extremists.

'I love Denmark. I grew up here and I love the freedom of our society. If Denmark should ever be attacked, I'm going to go in the front row with a Danish flag around my shoulders,' she was quoted as saying.

'But I've Kurdish family, and right now it is the Kurds who are attacked by brainwashed Islamists,' she added. 'she told in October.

She is far from the first Westerner to join the Kurdish fighters battling ISIS in Kobane.

Earlier this a photograph emerged on social media showing a group of men understood to have travelled to the city from Britain, the United States and Germany.

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