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Syrian President Bashar al-Assad
CELEBRATIONS were held in Damascus and other cities today as Syria marked the 75th anniversary of its independence and the end of French colonial rule.
President Bashar al-Assad warned that the country still faces the threat of terrorism and a crippling US-imposed economic blockade designed to undermine the Syrian government.
They were compared to the French occupying forces who were expelled from the country on April 17, 1946 paving the way for Syria’s independence.
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