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KOBANI, Syrian Kurdistan,— A young German man arrived in the besieged Kurdish city of Kobani, in Syrian Kurdistan, Rojava, to join defending Kurdish forces fighting Islamic State group IS militants, a Kurdish military sources reported on Saturday.

Schneider, a 27-year-old German man explained that he came to Kobani in order to participate in defending the city by joining the ranks of the Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG) who demonstrated bravery fighting against Islamists, a source from the YPG said.

The German man also said that the Kurdish fighters are protecting humanity against the brutality of the Islamic State group IS and called on all countries of the world to support the resistance of Kobani,

Several other Westerners from Canada, Israel, USA, UK, and Netherlands have joined the Syrian Kurdish YPG forces to fight against IS jihadists.

Kurdish forces have regained control of around 70 percent of the Syrian town of Kobani near the Turkish border after pushing back Islamic State fighters that have spent months besieging it, a group monitoring the war said last Wednesday.

Kobani town has became a symbol in the fight between the ultra hardline Islamic State group and its enemies in Iraq and Syria. Hundreds of Islamic State fighters launched a sustained attack on the town more than three months ago.

Need to be mentioned that the U.S.-led forces have bombed the Islamic State positions in and around the Kurdish town for the past months on daily bases.

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