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IRAQI Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi ordered troops to take full control of the country’s borders yesterday following Turkish threats to cross them.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who has invaded northern Syria in a bid to crush Kurdish forces in Afrin canton, announced “operations” at the weekend in Iraq’s Sinjar area to take on Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) fighters he says are based there.
If the PKK did not leave Iraq’s Sinjar and Qadil regions, he said, it was “inevitable” that Turkey would take steps to remove them.
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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