Nathan Ruser

@Nrg8000

Writer at . Have also written for other places. Can tell you about Syria or Myanmar but will mostly talk about stuff where other people are the experts

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Joined September 2011
Born on April 14
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  1. Pinned Tweet
    Jan 27

    Strava released their global heatmap. 13 trillion GPS points from their users (turning off data sharing is an option). … It looks very pretty, but not amazing for Op-Sec. US Bases are clearly identifiable and mappable

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  2. 1 hour ago

    One village reportedly lost over 100 people between the killed and the missing. RIP (other than the SSNP)

    Death toll from attack today on is now 215 This is one of the deadliest attack during the war in …
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    4 hours ago

    Incredibly sad report that tries to get to the substance of what really happened to US citizen Otto Warmbier after he was jailed in North Korea:

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  4. 12 hours ago

    Thanks to I might just have Aim Shinrikyo on the brain, but seeing grafiti saying "This world, it is not safe. We must make plans to leave this place, Tribe." Followed by some katakana, well it's wigging me out a little.

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    Jul 24

    secured Hasakah governorate, entered , reaching Buwara Saltpan

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  6. 15 hours ago

    Some of those include this fire, which burnt through Bahcha (36.764, 36.77) sometime between July 1st and 5th. Another fire on the hill overlooking it was burnt between July 10th and 15th.

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  7. 15 hours ago

    Some of these fires (including this one) have been documented by social media; H/T . Others appear to have mostly slipped under the radar.

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  8. 15 hours ago

    Fires near Jalour (36.74, 36.71), which were burning on the same day, had reached the settlement by July 20th. They also appeared to have been extinguished after nearing the town.

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  9. 15 hours ago

    Notably, many of the fires, especially the ones near settlements have been burning this month. This image from July 15th shows an active fire through Khazyan's two villages - 36.5637, 36.678 - (full fire extent shown from July 20th).

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  10. 15 hours ago

    Very preliminary satellite analysis of Afrin shows considerable areas of countryside burnt recently. Including at least 3 fires in and surrounding human settlements.

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    16 hours ago

    Update on South with attacks today in & ongoing regime offensive in Basin

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  12. Jul 24

    The Turkish military outpost on top of Jubayli Dağı (36.729, 36.785) appears to be reducing in size. First image from July 9th, compared to the earlier photo from May 15th.

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    Jul 24

    A mother of two turned first cell leader in . She was communicating with 600 people before arrested. Her husband was not aware of her motivation/activities.

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    Jul 24

    Here it is, at last (thanks through 's reporting), the geolocation of the civilian truck that was shot at by U.S. Special Forces in , early 2017: 34.9109302, 69.1668427 (). Our incident write-up at the time: .

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    Jul 24

    New details: the shooting happened on the main north-south road through Parwan province that U.S. forces traveled to Charikar to meet with and train Afghan forces.

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    Jul 24

    Confirmed News:SDF has fully captured Hasakah Governorate from ISIS,thus ISIS presence in Hasakah Governorate has been eliminated,after 3 years of battle between YPG,then SDF against ISIS

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    Jul 24

    "Hey what does blaming the victims look like?" George:

    Every life lost in since September 2015 ought to have been avoided had Opposition and its backers accepted the plain obvious - that there was only one winner to this conflict after Russia became a direct military combatant in the war
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  18. Jul 24

    >hero > "Indiscriminate bombardment of civilian populated areas has been a major component of the Syrian State forces strategy in the on-going conflict" -

    RIP HERO 😪
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    Jul 23

    .'s newest op-ed for the details the White Helmets' work rescuing over 100,000 Syrian civilians before they needed to be rescued themselves:

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  20. Jul 23

    > hire > women > photographers > too

    Okay, the Week in Pictures Gender Breakdown has lapsed for the past month because life is a little bananas right now, but if ever there's a week we need some good old-fashioned yelling about gender representation in the news, it's this week. Let's begin. …
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  21. Jul 23

    Looking for books or comprehensive articles on Bhutanese ethnic cleansing of Nepali people, does anyone have any suggestions?

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