British woman killed fighting alongside Kurds in Syria’s Afrin

BEIRUT: A British woman fighting alongside Kurdish forces in the Syrian region of Afrin was killed in the Turkish-led offensive on the area, a spokeswoman for the forces said Monday. Anna Campbell was killed last week in the Afrin enclave, said Nisrin Abdallah, a spokeswoman for the Kurdish Women’s Protection Units (YPJ). “She died on March 15, 2018 in Turkish shelling” on frontlines around Afrin city, Abdallah told AFP, adding that Campbell was 27 at the time of her death. “We learned of her death yesterday and communicated with her parents,” she said, confirming that Campbell was from Lewes in East Sussex.