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Syrian Crisis Drives Kurdish Push For Independence

Henry Ridgwell

Published November 15, 2012

Tens of thousands of Kurdish refugees have crossed over the border into Kurdistan to flee the violence in Syria . Meanwhile, the Kurdistan Regional Government in Iraq is training fighters to cross into Syria, to defend territory now held by Kurds. Henry Ridgwell reports from the border.

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