Aymenn J Al-Tamimi

@ajaltamimi

Some guy who writes about Syria, mostly...

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    Feb 22

    It's finally out! My lengthy report on my visit to the Jazeera canton (esp. Qamishli & Hasakah city) in eastern Syria in January 2018. Explores Autonomous Administration governance, relations btwn the region & Syrian govt, and implications for US policy

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  2. 1 hour ago

    Lastly, it’s all right to ask questions of collection process, what will happen to the documents in the end etc. However, it’s unreasonable to expect engagement when you start by throwing accusations of theft and imperialism at the NYT.

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  3. 1 hour ago

    In the end, it is conceited to pretend the documents I or others collect (or, for that matter, anything I write) is of vital intelligence value. It’s all just history, really.

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  4. 1 hour ago

    Also, number of pages of documents: I believe this is including pages of book publications, and some of those IS books the NYT got are already published online by IS.

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  5. 1 hour ago

    A birth certificate, or a grant of fertiliser to a farmer, is meaningless intelligence wise once IS loses control and reverts to insurgency mode. What is of interest are personnel files, lists of people actually in the organization etc.

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  6. 1 hour ago

    Most of the documents the NYT has illustrate civilian administration from a variety of angles. They show civilian interactions with that administration, but that doesn’t make those civilians complicit in IS crimes.

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  7. 1 hour ago

    Regarding the question of why many documents were allowed to be taken: what you should ask yourself is what is of real intelligence value to the Iraqi forces once IS loses territorial control of an area.

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  8. 2 hours ago

    The persistence on this matter is frustrating. So a few things ought to be clarified. First, many documents are in fact burned for a variety of reasons:

    The NYT is vigorously criticized by the prestigious Middle East Studies Association for its handling of a trove of ISIS documents from Iraq. …
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  9. 2 hours ago

    Call for a general strike in al-Bab (rebel-held north Aleppo) in protest at ‘chaos and tyrannical actions of armed people belonging to a number of factions’

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  10. 20 hours ago

    ‘No to reconciliations: yes to wiping out Da’esh [IS] and the Hamas movement in the Yarmouk Camp. Destroy them.’

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  11. May 4

    Buses carrying people displaced from south Damascus suburbs of Beit Sahem, Yalda and Babila arrive in north Aleppo countryside

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    May 3
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    Sincere thanks, Nate. I take inspiration from , whose archive has helped countless researchers (myself included) better understand ISIS.

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  13. May 3

    Not unique. نفديك يا سوريا is generic on side of pro-govt forces. Does SSNP of Nusur al-Zawba’a want to build influence? Yes, but not in framework of deposing Assad.

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    A report by 's SANA agency shows 's militiamen at the frontline near al-Hajar al-Aswad, S . …
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  14. May 3

    The PTT building used to be Ahrar al-Sham’s physical therapy centre in Azaz (opposite the media office), and before the civil war it was the Azaz post office. See guys? My account is great for random info :P

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  15. May 3

    Exclusive photos here of Western Union services in operation in Azaz in the quasi-Turkish Republic of North Aleppo

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  16. May 3

    It’s now possible to use Western Union services to send money to Azaz in northern Syria.

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  17. May 3

    /commander of Local Defence Forces in Aleppo (main epicentre of LDF anyway).

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  18. May 3

    😂😂😂😂😂😂

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  19. May 3

    It is also claimed that he more recently became the general commander of the Local Defence Forces.

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  20. May 3

    Haitham al-Nayef, a Syrian army general and chief of staff of the Local Defence Forces (it’s not just IRGC officers involved in it) has been killed in a traffic accident on the Ithiriya-Khanaser route

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    May 2

    As many things as there are that I've disagreed with Corbyn about, Labour absolutely should be repelling vacuous chancers like Dobby Travers (who were ten a penny in Labour students a decade ago btw).

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