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NATO leaders appear to attach greater importance to a Russian warplane’s brief entry at the weekend into Turkish airspace than to their professed aim of destroying Islamic State (Isis).
This is the unavoidable conclusion to be drawn from the overexcited comments by politicians in Nato member states and the cold war alliance’s secretary-general Jens Stoltenberg.
Stoltenberg asserted yesterday that Saturday’s incursion “does not look like an accident,” accusing Russia of failure to produce a “real explanation.”
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)
In Washington, the willingness to accept an open war with Russia is growing — at Europe’s expense. While Nato states are being drawn into confrontation, Europe risks becoming the battlefield of a potential world war, warns SEVIM DAGDELEN
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
