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SYRIAN troops recaptured a key town in Aleppo province from Saudi-backed extremists yesterday.
An army brigade, backed by Lebanese Hezbollah guerillas, the Iraqi volunteer Harakat al-Nujaba militia and other allied forces, launched the operation on Tuesday night.
Sources told Al-Masdar News that an Iranian airborne special forces brigade, recently deployed to Syria in an ostensibly advisory role, also took part in the assault.
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
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
