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July 13, 2017

Buffalo man one of 2 US volunteers to die fighting Islamic State in Syria

ALBANY (AP) — A former Occupy Wall Street protester and volunteer medic from Buffalo who had taken up the cause of the Middle East's Kurds was one of two American

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