British actor joins Kurds fighting Deash

BEIRUT — A British actor who has had minor roles in Hollywood films has joined Kurdish fighters battling the Daesh terror group in Syria and appeared in an online video Tuesday.

Michael Enright, who played a deckhand in "Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest”, appeared in a video released by the Kurdish People's Protection Units, known as the YPG. The video showed him in a trench with other fighters firing an assault rifle.

"ISIS are dangerous to every human being alive," Enright says in the video, posted on the YPG's Facebook page on Tuesday, referring to Daesh.

He called for weapons and medical aid for the Kurdish fighters, describing them as "my havals”, the Kurdish word for comrades.

The YPG has emerged as a key fighting force against Daesh in Syria. With the help of US-led coalition air strikes, they have succeeded in liberating dozens of towns and villages in northeastern Syria from Daesh.

Dozens of other Westerners now fight with the Kurds, both in Syria and Iraq.

In an interview with Dubai-based Al Aan TV from the Kurdish city of Hasakeh, Enright said he became aware of Daesh when the extremist group "cut off an American journalist's head”. Enright said he is willing to die for the cause.