MOSCOW warned Washington against further attacks on Syria yesterday, saying US warplanes would be shot down without warning.
Russian Defence Ministry spokesman Major General Igor Konsehnkov was responding to “leaked” plans to bomb eastern Aleppo to save doomed al-Qaida militants.
“Russian air defence system crews are unlikely to have time to determine in a ‘straight line’ the exact flight paths of missiles and then who the warheads belong to,” Maj-Gen Konsehnkov warned.
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


