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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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    May 2

    Today’s column tries to make sense of how it’s becoming harder for to kick the can down the road when it comes to in Idlib, at a time when is becoming even more important for Turkey after :

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  2. 11 hours ago

    ISIS’s latest al-Naba edition says that, while the group has always been unequivocal about the apostasy of any person participating in elections, it was also careful not to target some types of participants. No more, it says.

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  3. 12 hours ago

    A song by Albasheer Show mocking the (recycled) candidates in election

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  4. 15 hours ago

    A fitna within the US-backed SDF in eastern Syria: the Shaytat clan gives the go-ahead to the SDF to go after the Nukhba Force linked to Russia-friendly Egypt-aligned ex-chief of Syrian opposition coalition.

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  5. 16 hours ago

    A tweet by the UAE minister of state for foreign affairs calls for “a revival & a reactivation of the Arab role” to bring about a resolution in .

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  6. 18 hours ago

    Imagine you slept through 2016-2017, and you woke up to this discussion on the president:

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  7. 19 hours ago

    (... as in, the *marji’yah* stands neutral, or at an equal distance.)

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  8. 19 hours ago

    Excellent statement from ’s religious authority: • election is the way forward to prevent authoritarianism • citizens have the right to participate but no obligation to exercise it • stand neutral towards all lists • experience so far is a big disappointment+failure

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    May 3

    Idlib is now in Ankara's crosshairs as it tries to secure its borders By

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  10. 23 hours ago

    Years ago, before such revelations became public, I listed the *specific* clerics/ideologues that inspired ISIS and shaped its ideology as we know it, contrary to the widespread presumed names & against the consensus. Re-posting again:

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    May 4

    Idlib is now in Ankara's crosshairs. Turkish officials met leaders of Nusra & presented them with an ultimatum: the group had to either dissolve itself – and members join other factions individually – or face a rebel assault backed by Ankara. -by

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  12. 23 hours ago

    A perfect example of how we shouldn’t rely on statements and open-source pamphlets, without knowledge of the context. Can mislead or present distorted picture. Scholars of Jihadism must have country/region/ground expertise too, as the laughable takes on Nusra vs AQ demonstrated.

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  13. 24 hours ago

    The same statement *recommends* books/writings by those mentioned (tho not to read all of their work). Worth emphasizing that some of those works were taught inside the caliphate & some were publicly recommended by Turki al-Binali, while others were popular among some IS sections

    Not new, but the Islamic State forbids the publication/sharing of books by otherwise well-established Salafi scholars with some of them being well-respected names within Jihadi circles. The…
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    May 4

    Breaking: For the first time since 2003, Shiite cleric Ali leaves the decision to participate in elections to the Iraqis without asking that directly as in past years ...(1)

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  15. May 3

    Brilliant

    We need a coinage for the shrinking window between a person learning that something exists and broadcasting a strong opinion about it.
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    May 3

    Leading Raqqa official dies amidst string of assassinations targeting members of northern Syria’s Kurdish-led government. 2 Arab resistance groups seek destruction of SDF-US rule.

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  17. May 3

    . on the Trump administration's sudden U-turn on Qatar. “armies of lobbyists and consultants have not produced much for their clients.”

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  18. May 3

    Adnan Ibrahim, a prominent Muslim reformist scholar based in Vienna: “our aspirations, which we expected to take long to materialize, are already happening (in Saudi Arabia) ... Our ways have aligned.”

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  19. May 3

    Qatar didn’t pay a ransom. The money was confiscated: 1) This is like someone denying he robbed a bank since he was caught before leaving 2) This talking point suggests a sense of guilt, knowing they did send out cash, unlike if they justified the move

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  20. May 3

    LOL

    In his latest **gripping** report “fresh back from ,” Robert Fisk appears to -- of all things -- call on to “rebuild” ’s … …
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  21. May 3

    "Women have risen over the past year. I always thought Hillary Clinton being in the White House would have caused the rise of women, but I don't know if that'd have been the case because sometimes we get caught in these symbols..." says Charlamagne Tha God

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