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Fighting takes place around Altun Kupri, just outside KRG
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GOVERNMENT and Kurdish forces exchanged fire yesterday near the border of semi-autonomous Iraqi Kurdistan.

Baghdad troops shelled Kurdish Regional Government (KRG)  positions north and south of Altun Kupri, a town of about 9,000 people just outside the region, a day after the army warned it would enter the town.

The Defence Ministry said government troops had retaken the town by midday, though the KRG disputed that.

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