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RUSSIA apologised yesterday for accidentally killing three Turkish soldiers in an air raid in northern Syria.
Eleven Turkish soldiers were also injured when the air strike hit a building near al-Bab, the Isis-occupied town north-east of Aleppo where Syrian forces are also fighting.
Russian President Vladimir Putin promptly called his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan to express regret over the “tragic incident.”
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
