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Kurds continue attack on Hassakeh
Russian bid to broker truce between Syrian army and YPG fails
by James Tweedie
KURDISH People’s Protection Units (YPG) resumed their bid to seize north-eastern Hassakeh city yesterday.
The Kurdish YPG militia and Asayish paramilitary police — armed wings of the Democratic Union party (PYD), sister organisation of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) — claimed to have captured several districts from Syrian army reservists.
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