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SYRIAN insurgents launched a new offensive on the southern city of Daraa yesterday in rejection of next week’s peace talks.
The Islamist group Ahrar as-Sham and factions of the Free Syrian Army (FSA) were among the Western-backed groups who joined the al-Qaida affiliated Levant Conquest Front (LCF) in the assault.
They used several suicide vehicle bombs to try and break through government lines in the north of the city near the Jordanian border.
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
