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IRAQI forces launched a new offensive against Isis fighters yesterday, advancing on the border with Syria.
On the way to the border town of al-Qaim, soldiers liberated the H-2 oil pipeline station and adjacent air base and reached the outskirts of Rawa on the Euphrates river to the north.
Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi announced the start of the offensive from the Iranian capital Tehran after arriving from Turkey.
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)
Trump threatens war and punitive tariffs to recapture Iranian resources – just as in 1953, when the CIA overthrew Mossadegh and US corporations immediately seized 40% of the oil, says SEVIM DAGDELEN
