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Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan poses for photos with the workers at his presidential palace in Ankara, Turkey, Tuesday, September 14, 2021
TURKEY continued its four-month bombardment of Iraqi Kurdistan today with missiles targeting a number of Kurdish villages in the mountainous Duhok province overnight.
Ankara claimed to have struck suspected Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) positions in Hirore village, close to the border with Turkey.
But a PKK source told the Morning Star that the organisation has “no fighters based there,” and accused Turkey of bombing an area full of innocent civilians.
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
