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SYRIAN troops and their allies launched a big push to reimpose the siege on Western-backed al-Qaida terrorists in east Aleppo yesterday.
Lebanon’s Hezbollah, the Iraqi Harakat Al-Nujaba militia and the Palestinian refugee Al-Quds brigade joined forces with the army’s Tiger Forces and Republican Guard in a bid to close the mile-wide breach in the encirclement.
The offensive was launched along four axes in the key Ramouseh district, which has been under heavy aerial and artillery bombardment since the recently renamed Levant Conquest Front — al-Qaida’s Syrian branch — broke through at the weekend.
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
