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Joshua Landis writes Syria Comment. Dir, Center for Mid East St @ U of Oklahoma. 8 yrs in Lebanon, 4 yrs in Syria. Past-President of Syria Studies Association.

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  1. 2 hours ago

    How Sanctions Feed Authoritarianism - by is an important article explaining how most Pol Scientists have concluded that sanctions have made despots stronger & societies less liberal, educated and able to consolidate democracy via

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  2. 2 hours ago

    Hezbollah and Iran 'to stay in Syria until it is liberated.' Like the United States, Hezbollah says it must keep a presence in Syria to hunt down ISIS and make sure the terror org doesn't return. Is this ?

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    CENTCOM reveals scope of Yemen air campaign | FDD's Long War Journal - by

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  4. 3 hours ago

    U.S. Involves itself Ever Deeper in Middle East with No Clear Strategic Interest - By Sam Farah

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  5. 4 hours ago

    Important analysis by Muslim Shishani on why the Syrian Islamic Opposition has lost. Fine analysis of the Turkish position, also - thanks to both and

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    Syria’s shifting sands: Kurds ready to "test the waters" to see whether President Bashar Assad's government is ready to accept an autonomous Kurdish area in the northeast.

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    Jun 6

    Salvation Government condemns U.S. State Department addition of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham alias to Jabhat al-Nusrah designation. Says "the Syrian people was surprised by statement" – was it?

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    Jun 5

    No way ... stop. This can’t be ....

    CNN: officials believe John Bolton made the “Libya model” remarks deliberately to blow up the North Korea talks. Bolton’s concern was that the talks would not go in the right direction for the United States, the sources said.
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  9. 5 hours ago

    France side-lined on the US-Turco Accord on Menbij.

    🇸🇾 Après des mois de tensions, Américains et Turcs se sont accordés sur un retrait des miliciens kurdes de cette ville du Nord, où patrouillent des forces spéciales françaises. Mais Paris a été…
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    The GCC is dead: Saudi Arabia and the UAE have held the first meeting of their new two-man "cooperation council."

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    Jun 2

    SDF Spokesman : Syrian regime fears our co-existence model

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    Jun 5

    . Deux méthodes différentes! Les ont dû bombarder pour libérer . Après, ils ont déminé et aident à la reconstruction. Les Américains ont dû bombarder pour libérer . Après,ils n’ont rien déminé et se moquent de la reconstruction.

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    Iran to boost uranium enrichment plan - Reuters TV : via

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    This article on Al Jazeera's decision to shelve its expose of the Israel lobby in the US (a follow-up to its UK lobby investigation) tells you much about how the media and geo-politics work. Al-Jazeera just learnt the extent of the leash around its neck

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  15. 9 hours ago

    Giuliani: "After Trump sent Kim a letter saying he was calling it off. Kim Jong Un got back on his hands and knees and begged for it, which is exactly the position you want to put him in,” He suggested a similar approach be taken with the Palestinians.

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    21 hours ago

    U.S. Involves itself Ever Deeper in Middle East with No Clear Strategic Interest - By Sam Farah - Syria Comment

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    22 hours ago

    The on & strategy in : starve 's & population into submission, the first victim of which is dying children; "we may be dealing w an unreported death toll of 1/2 million people, most of them children"

    Subscribe to the podcasts on the Mid East. Here is a bit from their recent newsletter about how Yemen famine is artificial even as KSA insists to "enforce this military solution that will…
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  18. 22 hours ago

    Subscribe to the podcasts on the Mid East. Here is a bit from their recent newsletter about how Yemen famine is artificial even as KSA insists to "enforce this military solution that will cut off resources from the Houthis once and for all [is] a moral imperative.”

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  19. 22 hours ago

    Deal or no deal, regime set to return to south Syria - by AFP with quotes by

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    Jun 2

    According to SANA and local loyalist media, more than 70 clans from Aleppo, Raqqa, Hasakeh, and Deir Ezzor convened in Deyr Hafir to denounce the Turkish and US/Coalition presence on Syrian soil. Some reports that YPG checkpoints had detained 58 reps on their way to the meeting.

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