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International concern mounted Saturday for civilians caught up in fighting in Syria and Iraq as US-backed forces pressed simultaneous offensives against the Islamic State jihadist group in both countries. Around 165,000 displaced Syrians were trapped between the closed Turkish border and the northern town of Azaz, the United Nations said, after IS launched a lightning advance in Aleppo province. Further east, a Kurdish-Arab alliance backed by the US-led coalition against IS pressed an offensive against the jihadists north of their de facto Syrian capital of Raqa.

 

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