Kimmie Taylor

Kimberley Taylor (born 1989), also known as Zilan Dilmar, is an English fighter with the Kurdish Women's Protection Units (YPJ) and the first British woman to join a female militia in Syria.

She returned to England for a short time and then began to study for a master's degree in political theory at Stockholm University, but in March 2016 travelled to Rojava in northern Syria to cover the beginnings of the Kurdish women's movement there for a Swedish newspaper.

She embraced the anti-capitalist and feminist ideology that she found in the area and decided to abandon her studies and join the Women's Protection Units (YPJ).

"[2] Since joining the YPJ, Taylor has learned the Kurdish language and trained in weapons and battlefield tactics at their military academy, as well as studying the politics of the region.

[2] She was present at the Battle of Raqqa and after the defeat of ISIS fighters there, has expressed a wish to visit family in the United Kingdom although she risks arrest if she does.