AUSTRIA is forming a specialist group to investigate recent attacks on Kurdish women by fascists in Vienna.
Those thought to have carried out the attacks are associated with Turkey’s ruling coalition parties and Austrian officials have voiced suspicions that the Turkish state is involved.
Interior Minister Karl Nehammer warned against “a foreign state” using organisations to cause unrest as he announced that the body will work to find out who was behind the attacks almost two weeks ago.
CLAUDIA WEBBE looks at how Britain’s Nato ally has upped the stakes in its effort to silence domestic dissenting voices
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)


