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AMNESTY International accused Iraqi Kurdish forces fighting Islamic State (Isis) yesterday of ethnically cleansing Arab villages.
The rights group claimed that peshmerga troops of the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) had bulldozed, burned and blown up thousands of homes in villages liberated from Isis.
It also said that Arab civilians were barred from returning to their villages.
History shows from Iraq to Libya, and now Iran, that regime-change fantasies rarely deliver stability — but they always deliver human and economic cost, says MARYAM ESLAMDOUST
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)
RAMZY BAROUD looks at how entire West Bank communities have been shattered, their social and physical fabric deliberately dismantled by Israel to enable its formal annexation
