Throwing a Kurdish Fighter’s Body From a Height: The Dilemma of Foreign Combatants

Throwing a Kurdish Fighter’s Body From a Height: The Dilemma of Foreign Combatants

A bearded fighter hurled the body of a Kurdish female combatant to the ground “from a height”, as his comrades shouted religious slogans and sectarian chants. He lifted her in his arms and threw her from the second floor of a bomb-damaged building in Aleppo, during clashes between Syrian Army formations and the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF). The widely circulated video sparked broad condemnation, as the fighter was seen desecrating a corpse. Th…