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Israeli soldiers cross the security fence moving towards the so-called Alpha Line that separates the Israeli-annexed Golan Heights from Syria, in the town of Majdal Shams, December 15, 2024
ISRAELI attacks have targeted military sites in Syria’s coastal Tartous region in the “heaviest strikes” in the area in more than a decade, human rights group warned today.
It came as Israel’s government approved a plan to include the number of illegal settlers occupying the Golan Heights just days after using the ousting of Bashar al-Assad as an opportunity to seize more territory.
The plan proposed by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will double the number of Israeli settlers living in the region with a budget exceeding 40 million shekels (about £9m).
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
