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SYRIAN troops captured another district of Aleppo over the weekend as rival French and Russian UN security council resolutions were blocked.
Russia used its veto to block a French draft resolution demanding a unilateral ceasefire by Syrian forces fighting to rid Aleppo of Islamist fighters and their Western-backed allies.Russian ambassador Vitaly Churkin said: “This waste of time is inadmissible.”
A Russian counterproposal for aid to be delivered to Aleppo as part of a resumption of the US-Russian ceasefire agreement that would including joint military action against al-Qaida’s affiliate the Levant Conquest Front (LCF) was voted down.
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
