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A British woman who travelled to Syria to take on ISIS says the terror group fights her ferociously because she's female.

Kimberley Taylor, 27, quit university to join the Kurdish Women’s Protection Units the female arm of the feared YPG faction in Syria over a year ago.

But she says while she is attacking terrorists physically, it is also attacking their mindset - and has been a symbolic blow to the group because she is a woman.

Speaking to the Daily Star , Kimberley explains: "By us women being at the front line, it is also a symbolic action against the mindset of Daesh.

"This is why they attack us so ferociously. They want nothing but oppression. This is why they do not accept that we are on the front line fighting against them."

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The former university student, from Darwen has previously said she was prepared to die fighting the terror network that holds an horrific grip on the Middle East, in both Iraq and Syria.

The ex-student nicknamed Kimmie has spent over 12 months on the frontline learning Kurdish and soldiering - including how to fire a gun - at the YPJ’s military college.

She also goes under the local name of Zilan Dilmar and is involved in the attack on ISIS’s Syria stronghold of Raqqa.

Syrian Democratic Forces - backed by US special forces and Kurdish fighters - are trying to get into Raqqa as Iraqi troops attack Mosul in Northern Iraq.

Speaking from her forward operating base just 19 miles from the Raqqa frontline she said: “I’m willing to give my life for this.”

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“It’s for the whole world, for humanity and all oppressed people, everywhere. It’s not just [Isis’s] killing and raping. It’s its systematic mental and physical torture on a scale we can’t imagine.”

She added that a friend whose sister had been murdered by ISIS monsters had also inspired her decision to remain on the frontline.

Recalling the horrific story of a friend, an Arab YPJ fighter from Syria, whose village was ransacked by ISIS last year, she said: “She was from a pro-Assad family and her eight-year-old sister wrote on a wall: ‘Without our leader, there is no life’. She did it as a protest against ISIS.

“So they took her to a tall building and ran her over and over again with a car. Then, with the last one pushed her off the building. My friend ran away to join the YPJ.”

(Image: Kurdish Female Fighters)

Taylor’s family moved to Merseyside from Blackburn in her teens and she studied maths at Liverpool University before spending her early 20s travelling the world.

Her journey to Syria began during a trip 18 months ago to report for a friend’s humanitarian website on the Sinjar massacre in which ISIS kidnapped and enslaved 5,000 Yazidi women and children and slaughtered as many men and boys.

She said: “I was torn apart at the conditions refugees from Syria and southern Iraq were living under.

“In that moment, I made a promise to myself that I would commit my life to helping these people."

She returned to England for a few months before moving to Sweden to study political science at Stockholm University.