Kurds, Government Troops Push Back Turks In Northeast

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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