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(Syrian Kurds' military gains stir unease
By Erika Solomon and Isabel Coles
BEIRUT/ARBIL Mon Nov 11, 2013
(Reuters) - With a string of military gains across northeastern Syria, a Kurdish militia is solidifying a geographic and political presence in the war-torn country, posing a dilemma for regional powers.
Long oppressed under Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and his father before him, Kurds view the civil war as an opportunity to gain the kind of autonomy enjoyed by their ethnic kin in neighboring Iraq.
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