Thomas Pierret

@ThomasPierret

Senior Researcher at CNRS-IREMAM, Aix-en-Provence. Tweet in private capacity. RT not endorsement. Header: A l'Est de Damas by Majd al-Dik & Nathalie Bontemps

Aix-en-Provence, France
Joined December 2011
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    Jun 11

    Just watched a video of a young Syrian boy who woke up realizing he was blind after being hit by an airstrike. He wakes up kicking, screaming & sobbing uncontrollably while his father tries to console him. I've seen alot of horrible footage from Syria. This might be the worst one

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    Jun 11

    On growing up as a child of the Muslim Brotherhood diaspora that fled Syria in the 1980s, grappling with the identity issues of second-generation exile, and the way that experience broke against 2011: a sad, political, and personal account by .

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    Jun 11

    A Sensational Entry. In an interview with Diwan, discusses his recent research for Carnegie on the brief Salafi moment in the Syrian conflict:

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    Jun 8

    "The Syrian regime is disguising Iran-allied militias as its own fighters, according to rebels, a battlefield feint that appears calculated to try to avoid further Israeli air strikes against Iranian targets in Syria."

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    Jun 7

    Kurdish activist Ahmad Misto (Abu Aslan) assassinated 24 hours after lambasting Islamic posters in & the looting of private property, asking perpetrators to go back to Tora Bora. Masoud Ibo, Kurd with FSA but vocal critic of looting, has disappeared 2 days ago.

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    Jun 8

    German Public Prosecutor General issues arrest warrent for Syrian Air Force Intelligence chief Jamil Hassan for crimes against humanity - systematic toture and mass murder throughout his prison complex. First warrent of this kind.

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    Jun 7

    Analysis | Why everyone failed to predict the leftist-Islamist alliance that won Iraq’s 2018 elections My latest piece for the Monkey Cage attempts to draw some theoretical insights from the Sadrist-ICP convergence.

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  8. Jun 7

    من الخليج إلى المحيط

    Qatar eyes full NATO membership: Defense minister
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    Jun 6

    Syria’s “inside” and “outside”: How they became “them” The divide between Syrians inside the country and those outside has never been sharper.

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    Jun 6

    Tried to give an account of overlooked aspects of the Sadrist-ICP alliance for the wider secular political scene here...

    The Communist- alliance that won the Iraqi elections was a product of a movement that coalesced between 2009-14, the 'civil trend'. After the coalition's unprecedented electoral success, the alliance is coming under strain. for the blog …
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  11. Jun 6

    إخوة في الزكاة: المموّلون السلفيون والثورة السورية via

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    Jun 5

    1/ my sources telling me that and Hezb invested too much to leave Syria and that Syrian army too depleted to hold terrain in south or other

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    Jun 5

    Amnesty researchers visited 42 coalition air strike sites across the ruined city of , & interviewed 112 civilian residents who had survived the carnage & lost loved ones: read their findings:

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  14. Jun 4

    J'aurais dû écrire "quiconque pense qu'il existe une corrélation positive entre 'communautarisme' et radicalisation jihadiste". Dans le cas de la communauté turque de Belgique, cette corrélation semble négative.

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    Jun 4
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    J'évoquais cette étude dans un billet de blog l'été dernier:

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  16. Jun 4

    Same applies to Assad: he knows he's only valuable as an ally to Iran as long as he provides it with frontline w. Israel + Hezbollah's strategic depth . Wld be very unwise for Assad to put all eggs in Russian basket, even if he was independent enough from Iran to decide doing so

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  17. Jun 4

    It's not "IRGC wants war with Israel" vs "Hezbollah wants to preserve its political gains in Lebanon". Both need protracted, low-scale confrontation with Israel to preserve their respective positions in the Iranian and Lebanese political systems.

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  18. Jun 4

    Also, I'm really not convinced there's a divergence of interest between the IRGC and Hezbollah. First, Hezbollah is IRGC. Second, persistence of Hezbollah's hegemony in Lebanon is function of continued IRGC support.

    This analysis, like others, overstates extent & nature of Russia-Iran differences over Syria. These two have learned to work around them. …
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  19. Jun 4

    Can we please stop writing "Khmeimim" for the Russian airbase in Syria ? It's "Hmeimim". "Khmeimim" is the Russian pronunciation.

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  20. Jun 4

    Sachant que les Belges d'origine turque sont généralement moins bien intégrés et ont des structures communautaires plus fortes (mais se sentiraient moins discriminés) que leurs compatriotes d'origine marocaine.

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