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THE Syrian army launched an offensive yesterday to lift the Isis siege of the eastern city of Deir Ezzor.
The army’s 5th Legion and Tiger Forces broke through Isis lines east of Palmyra and pushed on towards Arak along the road to Deir Ezzor.
Isis seized control of Deir Ezzor province from the US-backed Free Syrian Army (FSA) rebels and its al-Qaida allies in April 2014 and has been trying to capture the government bastion of 200,000 people since then.
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
