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ISLAMIC State extremists in the northern Syrian town of Manbij took 2,000 hostages yesterday to use as human shields as they fled north.
The Kurdish YPG militia besieging Manbij said the militants had fled the town towards their stronghold of Jarabulus on the Turkish border.
“They used these civilians as human shields as they withdrew to Jarabulus, thus preventing us from targeting them,” said YPG Manbij military council spokesman Sherfan Darwish.
Statement from the executive committee of the Committee for the Defence of the Iranian People’s Rights
CLAUDIA WEBBE looks at how Britain’s Nato ally has upped the stakes in its effort to silence domestic dissenting voices
VIJAY PRASHAD details how US support for Syrian President Ahmad al-Sharaa allowed him to break the resistance of the autonomous Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF)
Trump threatens war and punitive tariffs to recapture Iranian resources – just as in 1953, when the CIA overthrew Mossadegh and US corporations immediately seized 40% of the oil, says SEVIM DAGDELEN