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by Our Foreign Desk
ANKARA and Washington were close to agreement yesterday on a Turkish offensive against Islamic State (Isis) in northern Syria.
Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said that Turkey and the US had no plans to send ground troops into Syria but that they had agreed to provide air cover to “moderate” Syrian rebel groups.
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