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People protest against Erdogan's attacks on the Kurds outside the Turkish embassy in Beirut, Lebanon
TURKISH President Recep Tayyip Erdogan vowed today to expand his army’s assault on Syrian Kurds eastwards towards the border with Iraq.
Mr Erdogan said his troops would advance at least as far as Manbij, 60 miles east of Afrin, their current focus.
Turkey’s Operation Olive Branch is targeting the Kurdish YPG militia in Afrin canton, with the aid of so-called Free Syrian Army gunmen.
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)
ALEX HALL follows the battered fortunes of Syria, a multi-ethnic country caught in the crossfire of competing imperialist interests