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Shengal Resistance Units
UNELECTED Mayor of Sinjar Mahma Khalil called on the Iraqi government to assert control over the area on Monday to prevent the threat of a Turkish invasion, a move seen as part of a co-ordinated plan to oust the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) from the region.
In an interview with the CIA-funded Voice of America, Mr Khalil called for the northern district to become “a demilitarised area,” demanding that “no gunmen remain in the city centre.”
He insisted that the PKK should leave after Turkey warned it would attack the organisation and its affiliates.
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)
ANN CZERNIK looks back over the last two years of carnage that began with the unprecedented October 7 operation and considers the rhetoric from both sides in light of the massacre carried out by Israel that has united the world in horror
