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SYRIAN President Bashar al-Assad vowed to rid the country of United States and Turkish occupying forces as he took the oath of office for a fourth term on Saturday.
He said that Syrian forces were determined to retake control of Idlib province, where Turkey and its jihadist allies remain in their last stronghold.
He said that stability was the top priority for Syria and promised to counter the “economic war” being waged by the US and its allies.
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