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PEACE campaigners warned of a dangerous escalation yesterday after US officials said that military advisers would soon be sent to Syria.
President Barack Obama has reportedly ordered fewer than 50 US special forces troops to northern Syria to work with US-backed rebel forces fighting Islamic State (Isis).
While none of the Syrian war’s many factions was named, the Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG) control most of the region along the border with Turkey apart from an Isis-controlled stretch from the west bank of the Euphrates river to the besieged city of Aleppo.
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)
VIJAY PRASHAD looks at the web of militias and drug-trafficking gangs that emerged in the Sweida region through the Syrian civil war, and how they relate to recent clashes and Israel’s intervention
