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U.S. Advisers May Be Working With Terrorist-Labeled PKK to Fight ISIS

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The U.S. relationship is informal amid a tangled roster of Kurdish warriors, but the PKK troops are too good to ignore.

MATARA, Iraq — On the volatile front lines facing the so-called Islamic State outside the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk, American military personnel have been coordinating with the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), according to a local commander from the left-wing guerrilla group that is still on the U.S.

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