Name Ariyel Kubani | ||
Mohamad Hosein Karimi, known as Ariyel Kobani (His real Nom de Guerre was Ariyel Pusagurian, but the YPG hijacked his legacy and changed his name to Ariyel Kobani, after his death), is an Iranian who went to Kurdistan Region of Syria also known as Rojava to fight Islamic State (ISIS) and was killed in a battlefield.
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Biography
He was born in Tehran in December 1990 in a Persian language family. He was a college student. After invasion of Islamic State to Kurdish and Izadis in Iraq and Syria he decided to join Kurdish Fighters known as People's Protection Units (YPG) in Syria. He was killed in a battlefield on May 9, 2015 in Talbukha in the city of Serkani in the Kurdistan Region of Syria. He was buried in Deyrak in the Jazira Canton in the Rojava the Kurdistan Region of Syria in the absence of his family members.
Significance
His voluntary expedition to fight with ISIS, his death in the battlefield and burial in Rojava , as an Iranian who voluntarily joined to fight ISIS has become the symbol of Iranian sympathy with Kurdish people in Syria in their fight with the terrorist group ISIS.