HASAKEH, Syria: A Kurdish-Arab force battling the Islamic State group in Syria said Wednesday that US arms and military equipment to Kurdish fighters would "hasten the defeat" of the jihadists.

"The US decision to arm the YPG... is important and will hasten the defeat of terrorism," a spokesman for the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) told Agence France-Presse.

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