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TURKISH forces blitzed Kurdish YPG militia in Syria’s Aleppo province yesterday while mounting a new ground invasion in Idlib to the south.
Starting on Wednesday night, Turkey carried out 26 strikes, as well as artillery barrages, against YPG guerillas in the north-western Afrin canton.
The military later claimed to have killed up to 200 of them.But senior YPG commander Mahmoud Barkhadan said reports from his militia around Tell Rifat and Hassajek suggested just 10 fighters had been killed and 20 wounded.
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
