A serving British soldier has joined Kurdish Peshmerga forces fighting Islamic State insurgents, Sky television reported on Thursday.
Sky said the man, who is not being named, had told family and friends he intended to spend a year in the Middle East.
He had been on leave from the British Army at the time he left for the region, it added.
A British Ministry of Defense spokesman said: "We are aware of these reports and we are looking into them."
Sky said the man had been in the army since leaving school at 16 and was known to have been been learning Arabic. It was not known exactly where he had gone.
No further details were immediately available.
The man would be the first serving soldier to have joined Kurdish forces, but a small number of former British servicemen have already done so.
Security forces also estimate some 600 British Muslims have travelled to Syria to join the conflict there, some of them with the militant Sunni Islamist group Islamic State.
Around half have since returned, and dozens have been arrested in Britain under anti-terrorism legislation.
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