A 20-year-old British chef from West Sussex, England, turned ISIS fighter, fighting alongside the Kurdish YPG in Syria, took his own life to avoid capture by the Islamic State. Ryan Lock died during an offensive by anti-ISIS fighters to liberate a village near the ISIS capital Raqqa in northern Syria. During the battle, the young Brit was surrounded by ISIS militants and apparently “turned the gun on himself” and committed suicide to avoid falling captive, in what is described as an act of “outstanding bravery in the face of a barbaric enemy,” by his Kurdish comrades. Lock had told his family that he was going on holiday, when in fact he was going to fight ISIS. The Sun reports: BBC sources revealed that a “trace of a gunshot wound was found under the chin” of the 20-year-old, suggesting suicide. The YPG source added: “It seems that the British fighter committed suicide in order not to fall captive with ISIS”. Lock, from Chichester in West Sussex, died on December 21 during a battle for the so-called Islamic State stronghold of Raqqa. He was fighting as part of the Kurdish militia, itself deemed a terror organisation by Turkey, whose forces nearly killed him weeks before [...]
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