Body of U.S. citizen killed fighting ISIS is returned home
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Kurdish people waving flags flash the V-sign and applaud while lining the road, as the convoy carrying the body of U.S. citizen Keith Broomfield, killed in fighting with the militants of the Islamic State group in Kobani, Syria, is driven by through Suruc, on the Turkey-Syria border on Thursday.
BOSTON » The body of a Massachusetts man killed while fighting alongside the Kurds against the Islamic State group has been returned home.
WBZ-TV reports a Turkish Airlines plane arrived Saturday at Logan Airport in Boston carrying the body of 36-year-old Keith Broomfield of Westminster. His body was then taken to a funeral home.
Broomfield was killed June 3 in Syria and is believed to be the first U.S. citizen to die while fighting alongside Kurdish forces against ISIS.
His parents told the television station that he had no military training but he felt compelled to fight against what he considered "evil." He went overseas in February.
