Thousands Flee Into Turkey From Syria as Kurds Fight IS

Thousands of people fled from Syria into Turkey on Wednesday as moderate rebels and Kurdish forces fought Islamic State insurgents holding the Syrian border town of Tel Abyad. A Reuters photographer at the scene said the refugees had entered Turkey through a makeshift border crossing overseen by Turkish gendarmerie officers, and that many of them were women and children. A Turkish official said 2,000 refugees were being registered on Wednesday after more than 6,800 were admitted in the...

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