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Kurdish, Arab fighters drop IS fight to defend Syria's Afrin

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Six weeks into the Turkey-led assault on the Kurdish enclave of Afrin, large numbers of young men and women from Kurdish and Arab forces are leaving Syria and the fight against the Islamic State group to head west to help.

Added on the 07/03/2018 17:57:00 - Copyright : AFP EN

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