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Dozens of Canadians have volunteered to fight ISIS in recent days, the founder of a support group said Monday amid reports that military veterans from several Western countries had travelled to Syria and Iraq to take up arms against the extremists.

Ian Bradbury said more than 100 people have contacted him offering to enlist with Kurdish paramilitary forces since Friday, when the National Post reported that a former Canadian infantryman had left Alberta to fight the Islamic State of Iraq and Al-Sham.

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“The majority so far have definitely been Canadian,” said Mr. Bradbury. Former soldiers from the United Kingdom, United States, Australia, New Zealand and Norway had also expressed interest in joining forces with the Kurdish fighters, he said.

The response came after Dillon Hillier, a retired corporal who left the Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry in March, said in an interview with the Post that he had arrived at a Kurdish Peshmerga base in northern Iraq to join the battle against ISIS.