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Focus on Syria, jihadis, PKK, etc. Likes are just bookmarks. RTs are ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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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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  2. 30 seconds ago

    The -constructed pro-Asad militia says an "official source" told it that the explosions at Hama airport were caused by a fire in a warehouse, so there's no truth to the rumours of an attack.

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    23 minutes ago

    So far today there have been 7 explosions in military airport

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  4. 22 minutes ago

    Write-up of Richard Pipes life in the . Inter alia, Pipes helped lead a team in the 1970s challenging CIA orthodoxy that the Soviet Union was a powerhouse bound to last forever that the U.S. had to accommodate. Pipes helped chart a better course.

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  5. 41 minutes ago
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    is trying to "culturally cleanse" the Muslim population in Xinjiang: sent to re-education camps, they are made to recant Islamic beliefs, subjected to struggle sessions, coerced, psychologically pressured, and made to thank the Communist Party.

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  6. 51 minutes ago

    The strange world of Adnan Oktar:

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  7. 1 hour ago

    Fascinating report by on Central Europe. Note on antisemitism how different things are between Czechia and Slovakia, which were one country until 1993.

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  8. 2 hours ago

    Reports of a massive explosion near airbase. [Picture via ]

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  9. 2 hours ago

    Great piece by for : Steeped in its ideology and the memory of the war with Saddam, will not stop exporting its revolution. Stability would not only end Iran's "causes"; it might be the end of the theocratic regime, too.

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  10. 2 hours ago

    Rep. Mark Meadows is trying to get this amendment added to the National Defense Authorization Act (2019). It would only allow funds to go to 's security forces if they guaranteed it would not pass to 's terrorist apparatus. Seems reasonable.

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    3 hours ago

    S. : E. front in Camp under heavy bombardment, but static since 1+ week. Geolocation:

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    May 16

    The 3 most dangerous places in the world to be mother, father or child? topped the list of most new displacement in 2017.

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  13. 3 hours ago

    A member of al-Qaeda in was killed yesterday. There has been a wave of assassinations in Idlib, beginning on 26 April. There are almost certainly numerous perpetrators. This act looks like an earlier campaign waged by against the jihadists.

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    15 hours ago

    With the recent surge of assassinations in Idlib targeting members from various factions from HTS, JTS, and FSA, today a senior military leader with the al-Qa'ida unofficial branch Hurras al-Din, Abu Jasim Jabl was also killed due to a IED.

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    9 hours ago

    Richard Pipes has died. Historian of the Bolshevik coup and the communist system in Russia. He refused, as so many academics did (and do), to pretend that anything but despotism and massacre was possible from this ideology and the fanatics who implemented it. He is a sad loss.

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    4 hours ago

    : France puts new six-month asset freezes in place over Syria chem weapons programme on Syrian, Lebanese, Chinese firms & individuals:

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    18 hours ago

    My new piece on how the US can keep its "eye on the ball" in government formation in Iraq, focusing on key US interests over personalities and specific routes to preferred outcomes

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    7 hours ago

    Australian government to reinstate economic sanctions against Neil Prakash, weeks ahead of Turkish court ruling on whether he will tried locally or in Victoria | for

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    4 hours ago

    BREAKING: UK hospital says ex-spy Sergei Skripal discharged, more than 2 months after poisoning with nerve agent.

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  20. 3 hours ago

    Once again fails in enforcement of basic decency: there are people distributing spoilers this morning, quite openly and without shame, yet no suspensions 😡

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    4 hours ago

    My latest deep-dive on affiliates in and . This is part of my larger capstone project at The of Law and Diplomacy.

    Friday - "Remaining and Expanding: Why Local Violent Extremist Organizations Reflag to ISIS" by Nicholas A. Glavin () - …
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