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

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    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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    % who say Islam is "fundamentally incompatible" with their country's culture and values: 🇫🇮Finland 62% 🇮🇹Italy 53% 🇩🇪Germany 44% 🇬🇧UK 42% 🇪🇸Spain 37% 🇫🇷France 34% 🇸🇪Sweden 34%

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    17 hours ago

    According to legend, the Arabian nomads were mostly isolated from the outside world until the rise of Islam. This rock (MISSI.I 1), bearing Safaitic and Greek inscriptions, from the desert of southern Syria (near Zalaf) suggests otherwise.

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  4. 2 hours ago

    Latest U.N. report notes what has long been obvious: the regime coalition is primarily responsible in for the use of illegal siege and deportation (i.e. ethnic cleansing) tactics.

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  5. 4 hours ago

    In December 1984, Masud Barzani went to East Germany on a false passport from Asad's Syria, having already been to Qaddafi's Libya. Barzani was looking for support of the "socialist states"; he was already working with the Iraqi Communist Party and even Iran against Saddam.

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    May 30

    "The basic notion is to work with Moscow ... to limit the influence of ... This idea is not new and remains illusory. is powerless—even if it were willing—to restrain Iran, the dominant force driving the regime coalition's war."

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    May 31

    Rumours of an Iranian-Russian split over Syria little more than a Western chimaera | :

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    6 hours ago

    For our American cousins: Alexander Downer was the Australian High Commissioner to the United Kingdom, not an “ambassador”. Commonwealth countries have High Commissioners to each other, not an ambassador. You, too, could have this but for all that 1776 folly.

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  9. 6 hours ago

    Awful to see Harry Truman smiling alongside Joseph Stalin at Potsdam (July 1945). On the plus side, unlike FDR, Truman understood Stalin was a monster and that his policies were expansionist, aggressive, and in violation of all prior agreements he had made on liberated zones.

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    13 hours ago

    A memorial photo of the Iraqi Jewish community on the occasion of a wedding held in Basra in 1945.

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    9 hours ago

    25 Mar, 2011: Anti-regime protesters fill Marjeh square in Damascus and call for freedom.

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  12. 9 hours ago

    Important by for : Congress' aggressive approach to , including threats of sanctions, badly misses the mark in terms of how this crisis arose and plays directly into 's hands by further fragmenting NATO.

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  13. 10 hours ago

    The United Nations created a de-colonization commission and set about the final eradication of slavery, except in those places—from the Captive Nations to Central Asia and Tibet to Cambodia and Vietnam—colonized and/or enslaved by the Communists.

    12 Oct. 1960: The tyrant of the Soviet Union, Nikita Khrushchev, interrupted the representative from the , Lorenzo Sumulong, at a meeting of the U.N. General Assembly because Sumulon…
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    12 Oct. 1960: The tyrant of the Soviet Union, Nikita Khrushchev, interrupted the representative from the , Lorenzo Sumulong, at a meeting of the U.N. General Assembly because Sumulong mentioned the occupation and repression of eastern Europe by the Soviets.

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  15. 12 hours ago

    Frederic Hof on a way to finally reconcile the U.S. and the Syrian opposition as part of the long-term stabilization effort in eastern , intended to keep Islamist extremists like and from having space to operate.

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    12 hours ago

    On Wednesday, more than 2yrs after Gulio Regini's murder, Egyptian authorities finally shared surveillance footage from the subway station where he is believed to have vanished:

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  17. 12 hours ago

    First, Trump gets some pretty solid economic news and got out of the meet with minimal embarrassment. So, obviously, he starts a trade war with Europe—which also damages prospects for his policy—while letting up on DPRK and plunging back into this summit fiasco.

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  18. 12 hours ago

    Allies: trade war Outlaw slave states:

    No new North Korea sanctions while talks ongoing, Trump says
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  19. 12 hours ago

    In addition to espionage, subversion, and economic piracy from the Middle East to Europe, the Iranian revolution continues its hunt for the technical knowledge to build weapons of mass destruction, reports German intelligence. v

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    13 hours ago

    BREAKING: Trump ends week of uncertainty, announces historic summit with Kim Jong Un is back on for June 12 in Singapore.

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  21. 13 hours ago

    By focusing on , the U.S. is ignoring Hurras al-Deen, the reconstituted, globally-focused al-Qaeda presence in , argues , who notes that normalizing relations with would open Idlib back up to U.S. surveillance and drones.

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