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Syrian President Bashar Assad (second right), prays on the first day of the Eid al-Adha, at Khalid Ibn al-Walid Mosque, in Homs province, Syria, Tuesday, July 20, 2021
NORTHERN Syria’s Kurdish administration has urged Damascus to open a dialogue to avoid further conflict after the government warned the semiautonomous region to sever relations with US occupying forces.
Syrian Democratic Council (SDC) co-chairman Riyad Derar called for a return to the path of political settlement, saying that international forces in the country are “operating in their own interests.”
He claimed: “The US is present in the region to combat Isis. It will leave Syria when its mandate ends.
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