U.S. national and foreign fighter David Taylor has been killed in the battle against the Islamic State militant group (ISIS) in northern Syria, the Kurdish militia he was fighting alongside announced on Tuesday.

The People’s Protection Units, also known as the YPG, and the main Syrian Kurdish militia battling the jihadi group announced on social media the 26-year-old Florida native’s death near the eastern Syrian city of Raqqa.

The YPG press office video, posted to the militia’s Facebook page, identified Taylor’s nom de guerre as Zafer Qerecox. He had joined the Kurdish fighters in May, the release said.

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“Comrade Zafer was martyred fighting ISIS’ barbarism on July 16, 2017, in Raqqa, Syria,” the video said.

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