U.S. Special Forces troops in Syria who showed up in photos wearing the arm patches of a rebel group regarded as terrorists by Turkey have been ordered to take them off.

Updated on May 27 at 2:31 p.m. ET. The U.S. Defense Department has ordered American special-operations forces to take down the insignia of a Kurdish rebel group that Turkey regards as a terrorist ...

YPG is a derivative of PKK,’ says Tom Barrack, adding US does not support creation of separate SDF state or 'free Kurdistan' ...

It's not unthinkable that whoever the constituency is for YPG or SDF has distanced themselves from PKK. So, I don't think ...

About 250 US special-operations troops were sent to northern Syria earlier this year to advise Kurdish and Arab forces battling the Islamic State there.The YPG has proved to be the most effective ...

Turkish leaders accused Americans of hypocrisy for supporting Kurdish fighters as they pushed toward Raqqa, the heart of the Islamic State. Photos from the Agence France Presse that went viral ...

The YPG and Turkish forces have recently traded cross-border and artillery fire. The U.S. sent special operations teams to the area in an effort to calm the situation by their "visible presence." ...

— -- American special operations forces photographed in Syria sporting patches of a Kurdish rebel group have been ordered to remove the patches because their use was "unauthorized" and ...

Speaking on a panel at the Aspen Security Forum, Gen. Raymond Thomas, the commander of US Special Operations Command (SOCOM), said the U.S. asked the People’s Protection Unit, or YPG, to re ...

The People’s Protection Units, or YPG, is a larger Kurdish-dominated faction within the SDF. “We were taken by a YPG commander to an American SF [Special Forces] soldier,” who Hudson ...

Syria’s army said Friday it had entered the northern city of Manbij after Kurdish fighters called on Syrian forces to protect the area from the threat of a Turkish attack.

Indeed, YPG commandos now bear strong similarities to other American-trained foreign special forces, including those in Afghanistan, Iraq and Tunisia, suggesting a deliberate intent to equip and ...