World update: October 30 2019

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Oct 31, 2019

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SYRIA

Mom and Dad are fighting again, by which I mean that the Syrian and Turkish armies reportedly “engaged in heavy clashes” near the border town of Ras al-Ayn again on Wednesday. Early operational challenges in implementing Turkey’s border “safe zone,” or the seeds of a whole new front in the Syrian war? Too soon to tell but it’s sure going…

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