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Monday, March 19, 2018
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Monday, March 19, 2018
British woman killed fighting in Syria’s Afrin – spokeswoman
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleA British woman fighting alongside Kurdish forces in the Syrian region of Afrin has been killed in a Turkish-led offensive on the area, a spokeswoman for the forces says.
Anna Campbell was killed last week in the Afrin enclave, says Nisrin Abdallah, a spokeswoman for the Kurdish Women’s Protection Units (YPJ).
“She died on March 15, 2018 in Turkish shelling” during fighting for Afrin city, Abdallah tells AFP.
“We learned of her death yesterday and communicated with her parents,” she says, confirming that Campbell was from Lewes in East Sussex.
Abdallah says Campbell joined the YPJ in May 2017 but had not been deployed to the front line until this month.
— AFP
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