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Women and children rescued from Isis speak with the media today
SYRIAN Arab Army forces liberated 19 Druze women and children from the clutches of Isis yesterday in a swift operation which saw a number of jihadists killed.
Syrian military sources described the operation as “heroic and accurate” as soldiers engaged in direct contact with a group of terrorist organisations, freeing 19 people after “a fierce battle” in the Hamima area east of the historic town of Palmyra.
Images broadcast on state television showed the liberated women and children arriving home in Sweida province after they had been pictured receiving bread and water from the Syrian army.
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
