A young British man who went to fight with Kurdish forces against Islamic State in Syria has reportedly been killed.
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His death has not been confirmed by the MoD or the Foreign Office so the reports are unverified for the moment.
One wrote: “British YPG (A Kurdish militia that opposes ISIS) fighter Dean Carl Evans (Gîvara Rojava, his assumed name) martyred in Manbij clashes against ISIS on 21st July 2016”.
The deaths of Mr Evans and a Slovenian man were announced on a Facebook page for global volunteers fighting in the YPG (People’s Protection Units) and the SDF (Syrian Democratic Forces) groups against IS militants.
Mr Evans died fighting for another strategic town, called Manbij, in north-western Syria.
Around 100 western volunteers are believed to have joined Kurdish forces in Syria.
In March 2015, Konstandinos Erik Scurfield became the first Briton to be killed fighting the terror group.
According to Mr Campbell, Mr Evans’ last wishes “were to be buried in a Kurdish liberated zone, to be buried with his Kurdish brothers and sisters”.
A tribute on a pro-YPG website read: “Both warriors were revolutionary and combative spirits in the front lines”.
Jac Holmes, an IT worker who left the United Kingdom to join the fight against IS, posted a tribute to Mr Evans online.
It is not yet known how long his son had been in the Middle East.
His father John Evans, of Oxford in the United Kingdom, posted about the July 21 death in a Facebook post on July 24. And as of yesterday when I checked in with his mom, he’s still overseas, there’s no real firm sense of how they might be able to bring him home, and you can imagine the complications on that sort of thing, without the typical American logistics backbone you’d have [if the US had a military presence on the ground]: “helicopters, convoys, all of those sorts of things that are regular in a place like Iraq in the heyday of the war there, or Afghanistan now”. Sorry to hear your sad news John.
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A spokesman said: “The UK has advised for some time against all travel to Syria”.
