Duhok: Six days after Donald Trump announced his troops were abandoning the "endless war" in Syria, a Kurdish woman called Hevrin Khalaf was driving along the country's M4 highway when her armoured vehicle was forced off the road by heavy machine gun fire and she and her driver were pulled out.

Her autopsy report - translated roughly into English - shows what happened next.

Kurdish politician Hevrin Khalaf, secretary general of the Future Party, was killed in a brutal manner. Credit:Twitter

"The woman was beaten with a solid body [object] on the head ... and on the bottom of the left leg, which led to the fractures of the two bones of the leg, and also beating by sharp objects on the posterior face of the legs, and dragged from her hair causing the hair to take off ... with the skin from the back of the head.

"Then she was hit by gunshot ... in the head from the right front of the body at close range ... After falling to the ground, she was hit by four shots from the back and exited the abdomen at not close range".