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RUSSIA’S Defence Ministry warned yesterday, following the US downing of a Syrian Su-22 fighter-bomber, that it will treat US coalition planes west of the Euphrates river as targets.
Moscow called on the US military to come clean on why it shot down the Syrian plane over Raqqa province, where the Syrians say it was attacking Isis positions — the US claims the jet had bombed close to US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) positions.
Moscow has suspended co-ordination with the US in Syria over “deconfliction” zones after Washington designated zones unilaterally.
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