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REINFORCED Syrian troops advanced, yard by yard, against Islamist insurgents for control of Aleppo yesterday under crushing Russian air support.
Soldiers and volunteer militia struck out from the Ramouseh cement factory in the city’s south-west — liberated on Monday — towards the nearby gas plant and the main highway five.
A huge blaze raged at the cement factory after fighters of the newly rebranded Levant Conquest Front — formerly the al-Qaida affiliated Nusra Front — targeted fuel tankers there.
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