American, Jeremy Woodard, has joined forces with Kurdish fighters known as Popular Protection Units (YPG) in their fight against the Islamic State (IS) in Ras al-Ain, Syria.<br/> <br />Twenty-eight year-old Woodard is a US Army veteran, originally from Meridian, Mississippi.<br/> <br />(SOUNDBITE) (English) FORMER U.S. SOLDIER NOW FIGHTING WITH YPG IN SYRIA, JEREMY WOODARD, SAYING:<br/> <br />"I served in the U.S. army for eight years, deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan."<br/> <br />Woodard says YPG doesn't recruit fighters from abroad. He joined the effort willingly.<br/> <br />(SOUNDBITE) (English) FORMER U.S. SOLDIER NOW FIGHTING WITH YPG IN SYRIA, JEREMY WOODARD, SAYING:<br/> <br />"ISIS has pretty much taken over - running people away from their homes, killing innocent people, raping people, selling Kurdish people into slavery as sex-slaves. A lot of us don't want to stand for that so myself and others have decided to come here and fight against it."<br/> <br />Another foreign fighter who's joined the cause identifie
