Viewer’s discretion is advised, as this video contains post-action footage of casualties, though they are censored. This GoPro footage shows a YPG militia member, presumably in Syria, ambushing two militants purportedly belonging to a Turkish-backed faction and looting their bodies after the kill. Given his position inside a building with small windows, it would have been difficult for the other soldiers to assault him, even had they known he was there. Conventional forces would probably have just blown the building with him in it, but obviously these militants lacked that capability.

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