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KURDISH militia liberated the northern Syrian town of Manbij from Islamic State (Isis) over the weekend, ending a bloody two-month siege.
Isis also came under pressure in neighbouring Iraq yesterday, where Kurdish Peshmerga forces liberated five villages east of the extremists’ “capital” Mosul in preparation for army operations to free the city.
In Manbij, women cast off their veils and men shaved their beards in celebration after the US-backed YPG took the last Isis-held districts late on Friday.
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
