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Afrin Kobane
TURKISH forces and their jihadist allies are being repelled by fierce resistance led by women in the battle for Tel Abyad in northern Syria, which has been bombarded by air strikes.
Women from the Women’s Defence Units (YPJ) are on the front line and told the Mesopotamia News Agency that they were fighting invading forces “with our cries of resistance.”
They are engaged in fierce fighting and engaging with jihadist groups in the Free Syrian Army (FSA), which has joined the Turkish military to invade the Kurdish-majority region in northern Syria known as Rojava.
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)
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