Social Worker-Turned-Sniper ‘Killed 250 ISIS Fighters’ in Battle That Turned Tide Against Terrorists

A fighter with the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), a US ally in the fight against ISIS, holds a sniper rifle on his shoulder as he attends the funeral of a slain Kurdish commander in Qamishli, Syria, on Dec. 6, 2018. Delil Souleiman/AFP/Getty Images

A British social worker who ended up sniping for the Kurdish forces against ISIS claims he killed hundreds of jihadi extremists in the fight to bring the terrorist group to its knees.

Azad Cudi, a 34-year-old British national with a Kurdish background, traveled to Syria in 2013 to do social work in the war-torn region, according to the Orion Publishing Group. But as the civil war expanded, he took up arms and became a fighter with the volunteer army—the YPG forces—after they came into conflict with ISIS.

Volunteers ‘With 40-Year-Old Rifles’

Cudi has now written a book, published by Orion, giving his account of how “2,500 volunteer fighters armed with 40-year-old rifles” stood up to “the medievalists of ISIS.”