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RUSSIA hit back yesterday at claims that it deliberately targeted US proxy forces in Syria, saying the Pentagon had refused to reveal their location.
Russian Defence Ministry spokesman Major-General Igor Konashenkov said the target bombed by the Russian air force in at-Tanf was almost 200 miles from US-identified forces covered by the February ceasefire deal.
“The target that was bombed was situated more than 300km away from the territories that were declared by the US as positions of opposition forces participating in the cessation of hostilities agreement,” he said.
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
