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IRAQI troops battled Isis terrorists yesterday around Mosul’s Great Mosque — where the so-called Islamic State was declared in 2014.
Federal police and the army’s rapid-response division advanced through the narrow, winding streets of the Old City, capturing the central railway station on the west side of the Old Bridge.
That left three of the city’s five crossings of the Tigris under full government control. All districts east of the river were freed earlier this year.
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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
