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THE fall of Mosul to al-Qaida breakaway the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (Isis) is a tragedy for the people of Iraq’s second-largest city.
It seems unlikely that Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki’s call for parliament to declare a state of emergency will make much difference to the course of what is now an all-out war between the fundamentalist terror group and the security forces of his own ramshackle authoritarian regime.
The country has not had a stable government since the criminal 2003 invasion led by the United States and Britain.
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)
ALEX HALL follows the battered fortunes of Syria, a multi-ethnic country caught in the crossfire of competing imperialist interests
