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Thursday, November 26, 2015
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Thursday, November 26, 2015
US soldiers arrive in Syria to train Kurds
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleUS soldiers are in Kobani, the town in northern Syria nearly destroyed in fierce fighting with the Islamic State group, to train Kurdish forces to battle the jihadists, Kurdish sources say Thursday.
Mustapha Abdi, an activist in the town on the Turkish border, tells AFP the American instructors had arrived “in recent hours.”
A source with the Kurdish People’s Protection Units says the Americans would help plan offensives on two Syrian cities held by IS — Jarablus and the jihadists’ Syrian “capital,” Raqa.
— AFP
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