Hurriyet Daily News: US soldiers with YPG and YPJ insignias unacceptable, says Turkish FM
Washington Post: First images emerge of U.S. Special Operations forces in the fight to retake Raqqa |
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
.@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
- 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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Background on the PKK, a group considered a terrorist group by the United States, Turkey, and NATO.
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