Hassan Hassan حَسَنْVerified account

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Senior Fellow , Columnist & NYT Bestselling Author . "a highly-talented color-changing lizard" (ISIS Telegram). hhassan@timep.org

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    Apr 19

    We have not yet seen the full impact of ISIS sleeper cells coming back to life new column

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    .’s new report from NE Syria features an infertile hybrid animal of a goat father and a deer mother, apparently as a metaphor for the political situation there. Feras brilliantly describes the animal: “beautiful but impotent”

    تقرير هام من على بي بي سي العربية من شمال شرق سوريا. …
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  3. 1 hour ago

    تقرير هام من على بي بي سي العربية من شمال شرق سوريا. شاهد في الفيديو حيوان "جميل ولكن لا ينجب" هو نتيجة تزاوج غزال مع تيس via

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  4. 18 hours ago

    Are there really 'no good guys' in Syria? . Truth from

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  5. 20 hours ago

    Another controversy in , ignited new debates about hijab and Islamism. 👇

    KUWAIT: A billboard that was recently erected around Kuwait has caused an uproar with several people in society — including a member of parliament in Kuwait — voicing anger over the…
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    Apr 20

    - once again dominates al-Naba newsletter's cover (#128) leading with the story of the April 14 inghimasi attack in al-Qosimah which killed, among others, the battalion commander:

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  7. Apr 20

    Despite Trump rhetoric, US withdrawal from Syria likely to be messy by , citing my column.

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    Apr 20

    Nr 1 expert : "Based on recent trends of increased attacks and ISIS’s apparent push to fully revitalise sleeper cells, we can expect further increases in the group’s activities in the coming months."

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  9. Apr 20

    Britain should "move in the direction" of "friendship" with Assad, although it should not fully embrace the dictator until his government “lightens its touch”, former British ambassador to Syria

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  10. Apr 19

    7 years on, people need to stop whitewashing these groups. Syrians deserve more than that. A new terrorist group is popping up in Syria and capitalizing on ISIS' defeat via

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  11. Apr 19

    A piece from Aug. 2010, imagine how worse it got since: "Fundamentalists have created a 'silent apostasy' in the societies they rule, a prominent Islamic scholar said on Monday."

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    Apr 19

    Great column by - We have not yet seen the full impact of sleeper cells coming back to life via

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    Apr 19

    New by on the Islamic State's lingering presence in the Syrian-Iraqi borderlands, and its plans for a return through underground insurgency.

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  14. Apr 19

    Spot on.

    "Dear Bashar al-Assad Apologists: Your Hero Is a War Criminal Even If He Didn’t Gas Syrians" - a column I've been wanting to write for a while. Here you go, my latest for is an open letter to those who still can't see how awful Assad is: …
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  15. Apr 19

    The significance of this fact is that it relates to which group will be able to endure longer, and subsequently be better positioned to gain the support of those who last remain committed to existing causes, which will in turn position the said group as the last line of defense!

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    Apr 18

    Fresh from . I’m in full agreement, unfortunately, that ISIS cells are more than a nuisance—they’re increasingly organized and just getting started.

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  17. Apr 19

    Ponder this, for example: Despite its substantial weakness relative to 2014, ISIS is now the most destructive & active of any anti-government force anywhere in places like Syria, Iraq, and others. It’s something to keep in mind when assessing Mideast insurgencies & ISIS future.

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  18. Apr 19

    In the next tweet, I wanna make what might sound surprising to those following the intense conflicts in Syria and Iraq, but it’s a really crucial point in assessing the prospects of non-state actors in the future.

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  19. Apr 19

    The good thing is that, I noticed, there is so much interest in those subtle things among governments, in various countries, from the US, to the UK, to Italy to the Philippines and Australia. I imagine before the end of this year we'll get used to a new normal in this regard.

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  20. Apr 19

    ISIS is not in the news and opinion pages, just like it was not before it took over Mosul. So, many of the observers who once opined about it are no longer opining or assessing. Yet, important/subtle things are happening in multiple countries.

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  21. Apr 19

    ISIS shows photos of the graduation of a new batch of trained militants in Afghanistan

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