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HUNDREDS of jihadists from Syria’s Idlib have reportedly arrived in Ukraine via Turkey, aiming to fight Russia.
Relatives of fighters with the Tahrir al-Sham group (formerly known as al-Nusra and the dominant force in a Turkish-backed regime in north-east Syria) said that Turkey had allowed passage for around 450 militants.
Idlib, one of the last parts of Syria not reconquered by the Bashar al-Assad government, has concentrated jihadist fighters who fled from the advancing Syrian Arab Army elsewhere.
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