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AT LEAST 40 civilians were killed in the latest US-led coalition air strikes in Syria on Saturday, with growing demands for a UN probe into potential war crimes.
The death toll following the bombing of al-Buqa’an village close to the city of Hajin is likely to rise according to local sources who say that many people remain trapped under the rubble of houses.
Most of those killed are reported to be women and children with sources reporting the continued heavy shelling of Hajin and the surrounding areas with hundreds of families reportedly displaced due to the devastation.
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
