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Kurds hit back at invading Turkish forces on strategic Afrin mountain
Turkey-backed Syrian opposition fighters atop a machine gun fitted pick-up truck are driven towards the border with Syria

RENEWED clashes erupted on a strategic Syrian hilltop yesterday as Kurdish militia fighters tried to retake it from Turkish troops.

Turkish military officials cancelled a government-organised press tour to Bursayah Hill, separating the Kurdish-held enclave of Afrin from the Turkish-controlled town of Azaz, due to “security concerns.”

The Turkish attack — and reported shelling in Idlib province by government forces — overshadowed a Russian-hosted peace conference which opened yesterday.

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