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SYRIAN Kurdish militia suffered a major setback yesterday when Isis recaptured the Ja’bar castle west of its stronghold Raqqa.
The 11th-century castle on the north bank of Lake Assad on the Euphrates river was freed from Isis’s grip on Friday by the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), dominated by the Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG).
They found the Wahhabi death cult had been using the medieval fort as a dungeon for captives.
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
