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WESTERN-backed insurgents and al-Qaida attacked Syrian troops over the weekend in an apparent bid to preserve the Islamic State (Isis) stronghold of Raqqa.
But the army continued its advance towards al-Tabqah and the main road to Raqqa yesterday, taking the village of Abu Allaj.
The Russian centre monitoring the shaky ceasefire negotiated between Moscow and Washington in February reported on Saturday that 1,000 guerillas had attacked army positions south-west of Aleppo.
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
