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Kurds, Government Troops Push Back Turks In Northeast

October 15 2019

Syria

Kurdish forces have retaken the northern Syrian town of Ras Al Ain from Turkish troops and their Syrian rebel allies, reports Agence France-Presse.

The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) launched a counterattack to retake the town overnight, the U.K.-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said on Tuesday.

An SDF media office said that it had repelled attacks on Ras Al Ain by four Turkish-backed groups. 

Clashes had moved farther south, outside the town of Tal Tamer, it said. 

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