Hasakah, Syria (CNN)Lightly armed, poorly equipped and exhausted by months under fire -- but determined to keep fighting: this is the reality of life on the front line against ISIS.
Rezan and his fellow soldiers are trying to stop the advance of some of the world's most feared terrorists, hiding out less than a mile away, across the plains of northern Syria.
They are the Kurdish YPG: proud and brave but an irregular force, scrappily clad in plaid shirts as well as camouflage gear, and armed with hunting rifles alongside their ancient AK-47s.
Theirs is no hi-tech war. The Kurds -- with just a few rocket-propelled grenades between them -- are trying to prevent ISIS from breaking through their lines.
"Of course we have mortars," one fighter told CNN, "but they are homemade.
Hasakah, Syria (CNN)Lightly armed, poorly equipped and exhausted by months under fire -- but determined to keep fighting: this is the reality of life on the front line against ISIS.Rezan and his fellow soldiers are trying to stop the advance of some of the world's most feared terrorists, hiding out less than a mile away, across the plains of northern Syria.They are the Kurdish YPG: proud and brave but an irregular force, scrappily clad in plaid shirts as well as camouflage gear, and armed with hunting rifles alongside their ancient AK-47s.Theirs is no hi-tech war. The Kurds -- with just a few rocket-propelled grenades between them -- are trying to prevent ISIS from breaking through their lines."Of course we have mortars," one fighter told CNN, "but they are homemade.
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