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Syria: Three groups eye up town of al-Bab
Fighting rages in north as Russia carries out more bombing

THREE groups were fighting each other yesterday for control of the town of al-Bab in northern Syria.

Locals reported that US-backed Kurdish YPG militia clashed with factions of the Turkish-backed Free Syrian Army east of Qabasin in the north of Aleppo province.

Despite a YPG announcement on Wednesday that it was withdrawing from the town of Manbij to the east, its “al-Bab Military Council” seized a string of villages to the west from the Isis death cult.

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