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ISLAMIC STATE (Isis) was driven back on three fronts in Syria yesterday as France admitted it had boots on the ground in the country.
The Kurdish YPG militia cut the road from Isis-held Manbij in northern Aleppo province to nearby al-Bab, leaving the town effectively surrounded as residents fled.
US-backed YPG fighters were reportedly assaulting the city yesterday under cover of US coalition air raids.
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
ALEX HALL follows the battered fortunes of Syria, a multi-ethnic country caught in the crossfire of competing imperialist interests
