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TURKEY condemned its Nato ally the United States yesterday after US troops were photographed fighting alongside Kurdish militia forces in Syria.
The People’s Protection Units (YPG) confirmed that soldiers seen wearing the militia’s insignia patches in pictures taken by an AFP news agency photographer were US special forces fighting alongside guerillas battling Islamic State (Isis).
The US has some 300 commandos in Syria as advisers to the YPG, which launched an offensive against the Isis stronghold of Raqqa this week.
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