(VOA) A man and a teenager captured in separate incidents this past week by Kurdish forces in Syria and identified as U.S. citizens fighting for the Islamic State (IS) terror group are likely not Americans.
A U.S. official, speaking to VOA on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the information, said Thursday that Soulay Noah Su, 16, was not a U.S. citizen.
Fighters with the Syrian Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG) announced Su’s capture Wednesday.
A YPG news release said Su was one of eight IS foreign fighters taken into custody during a special operations mission earlier in the week. YPG officials said the fighters were part of a group planning attacks to slow down the advance of Kurdish forces against the remnants of the terror group’s self-proclaimed caliphate.
