03-03-2015 23:58 via uk.news.yahoo.com

Briton Dies Fighting Against IS, Reports Say

The Foreign Office is investigating reports that a former Royal Marine has died fighting against Islamic State in Syria. The British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the combatant had been fighting with Kurdish YPG forces in the northern province of Hasakah. The organisation said it was not clear whether the man was a British national or a Greek man who had been living in Britain. Sky's Harriet Hadfield said: "There are just a few details at the moment emerging on social
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