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  1. Pinned Tweet
    Apr 29

    The Syrian regime's prisons are a vast network of concentration camps, where torture and murder are endemic. Despite the solid evidence, it's unlikely justice will ever be done, certainly not by an international court.

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    32 minutes ago

    A now-rare report on UN Damascus convoy access to besieged and "hard to reach" areas. Just 6 inter-agency convoys have been undertaken this year.

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  3. Retweeted
    15 hours ago

    A 'proportionate' response to chemical weapons attacks is not enough

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  4. 2 hours ago

    . speaks to about visiting the regime-held areas of : interviewing senior officials, talking to ordinary people with the secret police nearby, the underappreciated role of the churches in these trips, and more.

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  5. 2 hours ago

    The Huthis fired four missiles from into Saudi Arabia on 9 May, two targeting Riyadh and one each at Jizan and Najran, cities in the south. The attacks were a demonstration of loyalty to from the Huthis, after Trump cancelled the JCPOA.

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  6. 2 hours ago

    "Trump can have both a real Iran strategy and a real Syria strategy, but he can’t have one without the other." Well put by .

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  7. 2 hours ago

    Strikes and protests have erupted across against the regime's abysmal economic mismanagement. The theocracy rounds people up and the "arrests typically trigger more protests and strikes, with additional demands for the release of jailed workers."

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  8. 2 hours ago

    Meme-makers, do your worst.

    Hezbollah insists that it was Syria - and not Iran - which retaliated against Israel last night, suppling journalists with this photo which it says shows Syrian air defences in action.
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    3 hours ago

    As a Syrian, I hv 2 make myself clear: I spprt a jst solution 2 the Arab-Isr issue, but it's not even on my top 20 priorities rn. My cntry is in ruins bcz of a mad man. I'm ok w any actor that exposes this hypocritical mass murderer & degrades his industrial scale crime machine.

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  10. 4 hours ago

    Missed this at the time: "Sitting in the Syrian Parliament, surrounded by Assad placemen, the brilliant young reporter ... kept on asking, and asking, about the use of chemical weapons."

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  11. 4 hours ago

    Unclear whether it is true or further political warfare against the pro-Asad coalition: says it warned ahead of the massive series of attacks on / positions in last night. Moscow, again, did exactly nothing.

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  12. 4 hours ago

    By the statement from , the first attack on the Jewish state by the Asad regime since 1973 was: a) at the behest of a foreign occupation force (ordered by Qassem Sulaymani) b) wildly ineffective (four missiles intercepted, sixteen fell on Syrian territory)

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  13. 4 hours ago

    "Any effort to counter on the ground in [, , , or ] would mean fighting the very forces we are effectively feeding [through the nuclear deal]. Why not just stop the feeding?"

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  14. 4 hours ago

    As the sanctions bite back, there will be a short-term increase in gold demand (which itself damages 's currency) and then it will fall off next year. The Mehmet Atilla case also makes it less likely Turkish gold traders will help Iran this time.

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    5 hours ago

    IDF illustration showing 35 sites Israel bombed in Syria tonight including Iranian targets & Syrian regime anti-aircraft batteries. "We warned the Syrian Army to stay out of this," IDF Spokesman said.

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  16. 5 hours ago

    U.S. sanctions for violations of the "Iran, North Korea, and Syria Nonproliferation Act" include entities and individuals in: China, Egypt, Iran (inc. ), North Korea, Russia (inc. ), Syria (the , ), Turkey, and the UAE.

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  17. 5 hours ago

    Impact on the oil market of cancelling the : even with just the U.S. sanctions, it restricts the amount can sell and it means Tehran's remaining customers can demand discounts. If U.S., others, up their production, increases this dynamic.

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    13 hours ago

    Until & prove that they can challenge on vital issues, such as arms and security/military decisions, I will always count them as Hezbollah allies. In fact, since Aoun became president, they have only showed loyalty to Hezbollah on these issues.

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    6 hours ago

    Once again, notice how we are talking about how this is an "Israel v. Iran situation." Recall all the geniuses blabbing endlessly about Hizballah's "Lebanonization" and ignoring Iran's proxies in Iraq. At least there's been a course correction. *shrugs*

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  20. 6 hours ago

    The U.S. will deliver the first of the F-35 fighter jets to , beginning on 21 June, over objections from elements of Congress.

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  21. 7 hours ago

    SANA is reporting that 's missiles hit an ammunition store and a radar facility around Damascus. If even Asad's state TV is beginning to concede that its Mighty Air Defences didn't intercept everything, the damage could be pretty extensive.

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