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Kurdish fighters clash with Iraqi forces in north
NAZNIA, Iraq (AFP) Apr 03, 2003
 Kurdish fighters backed by US planes clashed with Iraqi forces Thursday for control of an army command HQ in Khazer on the road to the major northern city of Mosul, an AFP journalist reported.

The clashes around 10 kilometres (six miles) from Kalak on the Mosul road from a Kurdish-held enclave in northern Iraq started at around midday, first with automatic weapons fire and then mortars.

The Iraqis started the firing, after which US and British planes were called in to provide support fire, according to the Kurdish peshmerga fighters.

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