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ISRAELI airstrikes on the western Syrian port city of Tartus injured two civilians and damaged infrastructure hours before the arrival of a senior Iranian diplomat into the country.
Syria’s Defence Ministry accused Tel Aviv of launching an “air aggression” from across the Mediterranean, west of Lebanon’s northern city of Tripoli.
“The Israeli enemy carried out an airstrike” at about 6.30am near the town of al-Hamidiyah, the ministry said.
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