A female Kurdish fighter who became a poster girl
for the Kobane resistance movement after a picture of her making a peace sign
was retweeted thousands of times on Twitter has reportedly been beheaded by Isis.
The woman, known by the pseudonym Rehana, was
celebrated as a symbol of hope for the embattled Syrian border town after a
journalist tweeted a picture of her making a 'V-sign', claiming that she'd
personally killed 100 Isis militants.
The message was retweeted over 5,000 times, but
there are now claims Rehana, who fought for the Kurdish YPJ, or Women's Defense
Unit, may have been killed after gruesome pictures began circulating on Twitter
of an Isis fighter purportedly holding aloft
her head.
Her death - reported on several sites including 9News.com - however, is unconfirmed and at
the time of writing the YPG (People's Defense Unit) and YPJ have yet to respond
to MailOnline's request for a comment.
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