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Flare-up in fighting in northwest Syria pulls in Russian, Turkish forces - SWI swissinfo.ch

Flare-up in fighting in northwest Syria pulls in Russian, Turkish forces

By Khalil Ashawi and Orhan Coskun

AZAZ, Syria/ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkish forces and Syrian rebels fought government troops in northwest Syria on Thursday and Russian warplanes struck back in a sharp escalation of an intense battle over the last rebel bastions, Russian and Turkish officials said.

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