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KURDISH militia forces continued their advance against Turkish-backed Islamist rebels in Syria yesterday in defiance of threats from Ankara.
Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu vowed that the strategic border town of Azaz would not fall to the People’s Protection Units (YPG).
He threatened the “harshest reaction” if the Kurdish force did capture the town, while claiming that his army’s artillery shelling of YPG-held areas in northern Aleppo province had driven it back.
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
ALEX HALL follows the battered fortunes of Syria, a multi-ethnic country caught in the crossfire of competing imperialist interests
