American Special Forces Alongside YPG of Rojava in Fight Against ISIS

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American forces are fighting alongside Kurdish forces in Northern Syria in order to overtake the ISIS capital of Raqqa. In the video below, Representative Tulsi Gabbard explains the significance of Kurdish allies in the fight against ISIS.

Below is a close-up of an American soldier wearing a patch of YPJ, the all-female brigade of the Kurdish YPG forces of Northern Syria, otherwise known as Rojava.

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Before official American forces joined the fight, the foreign legion was composed of Western vigilantes who wanted to help in the fight against ISIS.

Pics of U.S. soldiers, wearing Kurdish YPG patches, fighting ISIS in #Syria, N. #Raqqa countryside. V @afp @akhbar. pic.twitter.com/JLTgdBkaD2

— Jenan Moussa (@jenanmoussa) May 26, 2016

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.@MarcShlikoff US Special operators will often wear patched from their partner forces as a sign of #partnership #TalkOIR

— COL Steve Warren (@OIRSpox) May 26, 2016

Military Times: 

• Syrian Kurds say they'll declare federal region in Syria. "The idea was promptly dismissed by Turkey and also the Syrian government team at U.N.-brokered peace talks in Geneva. The main Syrian Kurdish group, the Democratic Union Party (PYD), and its military wing, the People's Protection Units (YPG), have so far been excluded from those talks so as not to anger Turkey, despite Russia's insistence that they be part of the negotiations. Ankara views the group as a terrorist organization."
• Syria's Kurds declare de-facto federal region in north. "Everybody rhetorically appreciates the Kurds, they all acknowledge the Kurdish fight against ISIS and that they are great warriors, but this is not being reflected in the diplomatic spectrum," said Mutlu Civiroglu, a Washington-based Kurdish affairs analyst, using an alternative acronym for the Islamic State group."​

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