American woman and British citizen killed fighting alongside Syrian rebels allegedly were spies (video)

An American woman who converted to Islam after falling in love with an Arab immigrant has been killed fighting for opposition forces in Syria, the FBI confirmed her death. Syrian state-run television also reported the death of three Westerners in Idleb, a city in northwestern Syria, including a British citizen who were killed by forces loyal to President Bashar Assad’s forces. 

The woman, Nicole Lynn Mansfield, 33, was first identified by a Syrian television station, which broadcast images of her driver’s license photo. Mansfield is shown in the picture wearing an Islamic headscarf and listing her address in Flint, Michigan. It also released what is said was the name and passport of a British citizen. It did not identify a third person who it claimed was a Westerner.

State-run news agency said that the bodies were of a "militant ...of British nationality, born in London 1990, and a woman from the U.S. state of Michigan, and called Nicole Lynn Mansfeld born in 1980" while the third body did not "carry any document [that] reveal his identity."

TV footage showed a bullet-riddled car and three bodies laid out. It also showed weapons, a computer, a hand-drawn map of a government military facility and a flag belonging to the al Qaeda-affiliated al-Nusra Front, Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported.

Syrian news stated that 33-year-old Mansfield was a "mercenary" fighting for the opposition in Syria's Civil War. Other news sources report that the American woman and the two other killed Westerners were "spies" and "opposition militants."
SANA reported that the three were killed after they were found "snooping" around a military base. Field sources told Syrian TV news that the three foreigners were near a military base and that one of them "threw a grenade"which prompted protective sources to open fire.