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Thursday, 2 October 2014

U.S. citizen joins Syria Kurds in fight against Islamic State

A Kurdish peshmerga fighter holds a Kurdish flag during the training with the anti-tank gun MILAN at the Infantry School of the German Federal Armed Forces Bundeswehr in Hammelburg, Germany, Thursday, Oct. 2, 2014. Germany's army trains 32 Kurdish peshmerga fighter for their fight against Islamic State group militants. (AP Photo/Jens Meyer) By Tom Perry and Fiona Ortiz BEIRUT/CHICAGO (Reuters) - A U.S. citizen has joined Kurdish forces fighting against Islamic State militants in northern Syria, a spokesman for the main Kurdish armed group in the country said on Thursday. The Kurdish official said that Jordan Matson had joined the Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG), who are mainly battling advances by Islamic State close to Syria's borders with Turkey and Iraq. "Yes it is true," YPG spokesman Redur Xelil said in an online message. "He is fighting in the Jazaa area. ...








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