Americans and other westerners are now joining up with the Kurds to help with the fight against ISIS on the ground.
So far, dozens of Westerners have joined the ground fight against ISIS.
28 year old Jordan Matson, a former US Army soldier who joined up to fight ISIS, told the Associated Press: “I’m not going back until the fight is finished and ISIS is crippled.”
He went on to say:
“I decided that if my government wasn’t going to do anything to help this country, especially Kurdish people who stood by us for 10 years and helped us out while we were in this country, then I was going to do something.”
The Kurds use the Internet to find soldiers. They have created a Facebook page called “The Lions of Rojava,” with the stated aim being to send “terrorists to hell and save humanity.” It is replete with images of beautiful, heavily armed female Kurdish commanders and fighters.
In addition to Matson, three other Americans and an Australian national spoke to the Associated Press and said that they agreed to join the fight against ISIS through the Kurdish Facebook page.
He and the others crossed from Syria into Turkey and then joined a Kurdish offensive that came into Iraq last month.
Matson also discussed the reason he joined up to fight ISIS:
“How many people were sold into slavery or killed just for being part of a different ethnic group or religion?” Matson said. “That’s something I am willing to die to defend.”
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