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THREE groups were fighting each other yesterday for control of the town of al-Bab in northern Syria.
Locals reported that US-backed Kurdish YPG militia clashed with factions of the Turkish-backed Free Syrian Army east of Qabasin in the north of Aleppo province.
Despite a YPG announcement on Wednesday that it was withdrawing from the town of Manbij to the east, its “al-Bab Military Council” seized a string of villages to the west from the Isis death cult.
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
