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SYRIAN soldiers and allied Hezbollah guerillas freed swathes of the Ghouta extremist enclave on the outskirts of Damascus yesterday.
The allies took advantage of infighting between insurgent factions to retake the towns of Deir al-Asafir and Zabdean, captured by rebels in 2012.
Numerous villages and farms were also freed from Rahman Legion militants in an advance deep into a pocket in the south of the rebel zone.
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
