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Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan speaks during the inauguration of a solar technologies plant, outside Ankara, Turkey
SYRIAN Kurds called for action against an unfolding humanitarian crisis today as Turkey continued to block the water supply of thousands of people in Hasakah province.
A statement signed by human-rights and civil-society organisations in the north-eastern region urged the UN to intervene, saying that occupying forces had cut the supply from Alouk water station for the 22nd day.
The organisations condemned the “inhuman acts” of the Turkish forces, insisting that they amount to “a war crime and genocide” under the Geneva Convention.
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