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KURDISH forces and their allies have recaptured a belt of villages around Kobane from Islamic State (Isis) forces, senior Kurdish official Anwar Muslim said today.
Mr Muslim said that the Kurdish fighters had secured an area six to nine miles in diameter around Kobane.
Kurdish officials are seeking international funds to rebuild Kobane because “we liberated the city but most of it is destroyed,” Mr Muslim said.
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