Nineteen-year-old, Asia Ramazan Antar, a female Kurdish fighter was killed when she reportedly tried to stop an attack by three Islamic State (Isis) suicide car bombers. For her good looks, Antar was dubbed as "Kurdish Angelina Jolie"  by the Western media. She had become the poster girl for the Syrian Kurdish Women's Protection Units (YPJ) in the war-ravaged country.

Commander Shirin Abdullah, YPJ spokeswoman, said that, "She and her fellows blew up two of them but the last was very close to her when it exploded."

Antar, a machine gunner and a feminist was one among the female Kurdish fighters guarding the village of al-Yashli when the militants launched the attack. She is said to have died immediately when the suicide car bombs exploded.

According to Abdullah, While she became well known for her looks, Antar preferred being compared to Hollywood actress Angelina Jolie for her social work and for being caring towards people and not for her looks.

She is said to have joined the YPJ forces in 2014 hoping to free Syrian women in her village from patriarchal domination. She was married and divorced within three months of her marriage and had secondary school level education when she joined the YPJ two years ago.

"She always said that her battles against Daesh [Isis] were battles against the ugliness of their views and to build a better life," Abdullah said.

"She always said that the woman has her own cleverness and she doesn't need to copy what the man does."

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