'Women's army' 公約するs to fight on in Syria after Briton's death
By 物陰／風下 Mannion
LONDON, March 20 (Thomson Reuters 創立／基礎) - An all-女性（の） Kurdish 民兵 公約するd to fight on after the death of a 26-year-old British woman during a major 強襲，強姦 on a 地域 in northern Syria where it has 上げるd women's 権利s.
Anna Campbell died on March 15 during an attack by the Turkish 軍の, the YPJ 旅団 said on its website, the 最新の Western 闘士，戦闘機 to die と一緒に Kurdish 軍隊s in Syria's seven-year-old civil war.
"Together with three of her comrades, she joined the immortal 殉教者s," the group said.
"We give our 約束 to gift them with the freedom of peoples and the victory of women, in which they so 堅固に believed."
Turkish 軍隊s and their Syrian 反逆者／反逆する 同盟（する）s swept into the Syrian town of Afrin on Sunday after an eight-week （選挙などの）運動をする to 運動 out Kurdish 軍隊s, 開始 a new 前線 in Syria's multi-味方するd civil war.
Turkey says Syrian Kurdish 闘士，戦闘機s are an 拡張 of a 交戦的な group 行うing an 暴動 inside Turkey, and 公約するd to 鎮圧する what it 述べるd as a "terror 回廊（地帯）" along Turkey's southern 国境 with Syria.
The YPJ, a Kurdish acronym for women's 保護 部隊s, was 設立するd in 2013 in the self-布告するd 自治権のある 地域 of Rojava, wedged between Turkey and 領土 held by Islamic 明言する／公表する.
It 述べるs itself on its website as "the first women's army", fighting for women's freedom and a democratic Syria. The 場所／位置 描写するs young women 存在 trained with 軍の 演習s and using (a)自動的な／(n)自動拳銃 武器s.
The 部隊 also said that it has "dozens of 国籍s" in is 階級s, 奮起させるd by Ivana Hoffmann, a young German woman who died in 2015 fighting for the YPJ.
Campbell appeared in a ビデオ 地位，任命するd by the YPJ on Facebook on Monday in which she 述べるd her excitement at going to fight in Afrin, and explained why she 最初 went to Syria.
"I joined because I 手配中の，お尋ね者 to 参加する in the 革命 of women that is 存在 built up here," she said.
The YPJ won 賞賛する for its prowess 戦う／戦いing Islamic 明言する／公表する, 含むing the 解放 of Yazidi families under 包囲 近づく Sinjar in northern Iraq in 2014.
The Syrian 衝突 grew out of popular 抗議するs against 大統領 Bashar al-Assad in 2011, and 発展させるd into civil war after the 政府 答える／応じるd with 軍隊.
Britain's 外務省 警告するs against all travel to Syria.
"Anybody who travels to Syria against our advice is putting themselves at かなりの 危険, 特に if they travel to join an 武装した group," it said in a 声明.
"We 勧める 堅固に against any 参加 in this 肉親，親類d of activity." (報告（する）／憶測ing by 物陰／風下 Mannion @leemannion, Editing by Robert Carmichael and Katy Migiro. Please credit the Thomson Reuters 創立／基礎, the charitable arm of Thomson Reuters, that covers 人道的な news, women's 権利s, trafficking, 所有物／資産／財産 権利s, 気候 change and resilience. Visit http://news.信用.org)
