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Smoke rises from a rebel encampment hit by Syrian troops this week
SYRIA’S armed forces proclaimed the complete expulsion today of Isis from the vast eastern desert linking its heartland to the Iraqi border.
General Ali Mayhoub said in a televised statement that, with the help of the air force, the army achieved this task in the desert of Deir Ezzor province and would continue to chase terrorist remnants from Syria.
The US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces, led by Kurdish YPG fighters, are still battling Isis units in pockets along the Iraqi border to the north.
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
