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SYRIAN forces maintained pressure on US troops and their insurgent allies over the weekend despite Thursday’s air raid by the United States.
US-backed Free Syrian Army (FSA) militants and their al-Qaida-affiliated Hetesh allies launched a counteroffensive on Saturday night towards Busra in the southern province of Sweida.
Syrian troops supported by Lebanese Hezbollah guerillas, Syrian Social Nationalist Party militia and Iraqi international brigades chased the insurgents out of the province on Friday night, taking control of a large stretch of the Jordanian border for the first time in years.
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
