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U.S. troops in Syria ordered to remove offending patches

By Jamie McIntyre
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After loud protests from Turkey, U.S. special operations forces in Syria have been ordered to remove shoulder patches from the Kurdish militia group known as the YPG.

“Wearing those YPG patches was unauthorized and inappropriate,” U.S. military spokesman Col. Steve Warren told reporters Friday from Baghdad.

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