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SYRIAN rebel and militant groups accused the main Kurdish militia yesterday of an “ethnic cleansing” of Arab and Turkmen people.
The People’s Protection Units (YPG) militia, which is is poised to capture the Islamic State (Isis) stronghold of Tal Abyad, denied the allegations by 15 groups.
Thousands of refugees, most of them Sunni Muslim Arabs, have fled to Turkey in the past two weeks during the YPG advance on the border town.
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