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TURKISH media claimed nine people were wounded yesterday by rockets fired over the border from Syria’s Afrin canton.
It blames the fire on Syrian Kurdish forces resisting the Turkish invasion of the region, which has seen dozens of civilians killed in indiscriminate bombing raids.
Turkey claims to be fighting “terrorists” in Afrin, though the Kurdish forces it is fighting have been battling Isis in alliance with its Nato ally the United States. Kurdish politician Aldar Khalil has slammed Washington’s “unclear and indecisive” stance on the Turkish assault.
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