GoPro HD footage: British YPG fighter in action against ISIS in Syria

Fighting alongside Kurds. Out of pitch darkness, a searchlight gleamed into life and Joe Akerman realised he was in unimaginable danger. The light was fixed to the front of an armour-plated Islamic State ‘suicide truck’ carrying ten tons of explosives – and speeding across rocky scrubland straight towards him. Some months earlier the 37-year-old roofer, angry and frustrated by the horrifying events unfolding in Syria, had volunteered to travel to the war-torn country to fight alongside the Kurds against the