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SYRIAN and Iraqi forces surrounded and attacked the last major Isis stronghold of Abu Kamal yesterday in a cross-border offensive.
Syrian government troops, allied militia fighters and the Iraqi Popular Mobilisation Units (PMU) were battling their way into the town on the south-eastern border.
Hezbollah sources said the joint force advanced from al-Qaim to the south, just across the border in Iraq.
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
