‘We Syrians are being used as political tools... yet again’

Despite last week's US-brokered truce, fighting continues on the Turkish-Syrian border

It's an unusually hot autumn in the plains of southern Turkey, where in some places nothing but wire fencing is all that separates this country from the chaos that has engulfed Syria over the last eight years.

Cotton, pistachio and olive trees grow on both sides of the border. But plumes of black smoke are only rising above towns on the Syrian side.

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