A journalist in Syria has posted a video of a hard-as-nails Kurdish fighter narrowly dodging an ISIS sniper bullet.
Hemze Hamza posted the video to Twitter, where you see the narrowly missing her head. You'd think she'd be pretty shit up by coming millimetres close to death, but nah, instead she reacts by chuckling as she squats on the ground for cover.
"Thank god the ISIS terrorist missed," Hamza tweeted, later adding: "Kurdish women know no fear.
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"Your average human being would be scared for life after being so close to death but she kept laughing."
The soldier keeps her cool as the bullet hits the wall behind her. Credit: Twitter/Hamza Hemze
The woman is one of thousands of female fighters who joined the fight against ISIS, with the group reportedly losing its grip on the city of Raqqa.
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Credit: Twitter/Hamza Hemze
The People's Protection Units (or YPG), a Kurdish militia, even has an all-women fighting unit called the Women's Protection Units (or YPJ).
The video comes after David Eubank - who is a part of the Free Burma Rangers, a 'multi-ethnic humanitarian service movement working to bring help, hope and love to people in the conflict areas of Burma, Iraq, and Sudan' - was videoed was helping a young girl in Mosul, Iraq, one of Islamic State's lasting strongholds in the country. Watch the dramatic footage here:
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YouTube/Nabih Bulos
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He noticed a little girl hiding from the wrath of an ISIS sniper and despite the danger, dashed out to rescue her, while his two companions provide cover fire. Eubank says that the next day they returned without the protection of a tank and still rescued seven more people.
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