Mourners carry the coffins of fighters from the Kurdish People's Protection Units' (YPG), after they were killed in combat against Islamic State (IS) group jihadists in the town of Tal Abyad on the border with Turkey, during their funeral in the Syrian town of Ras al-Ain, on March 2, 2016. The Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG) have controlled parts of Syria's north and northeast since the Syrian regime unilaterally withdrew from the region in 2012. The YPG has scored major victories against IS in Kobane, Tal Abyad and Hasakeh province with aerial support from the US-led coalition fighting the jihadists. They control more than 10 percent of Syrian territory and three-quarters of the border with Turkey. / AFP / DELIL SOULEIMAN (Photo credit should read DELIL SOULEIMAN/AFP/Getty Images)
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