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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. 7 minutes ago

    Earlier this month, I pointed out there were at least three tracks running (Iran, Brunson, Russia) that "create[d] a real risk of U.S. sanctions being applied to , a first since the Cyprus fiasco in the mid-1970s."

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    13 minutes ago

    Iraqi tribes of Salah ad-Din Province pled with government to conduct security operations in Hawija district. ISIS roams free at night and blows up homes and conducts other criminal acts.

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  4. 18 minutes ago

    >> cannot press its case by taking hostages, though. And in the flirtation with , which is intended to bring in the United States to re-embrace Turkey, there is only so far things can go (the S-400 the clearest case) before it has gone too far. Dark times ahead.

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  5. 20 minutes ago

    I still think we cannot afford to face an actually hostile : Ankara's influence is too pervasive in too many areas of interest to us, including quarantining . We certainly can't afford the Turks to go into the enemy camp. And Turkey has real grievances with us. >>

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  6. 22 minutes ago

    Turkey's suggestion that Andrew Brunson is being held as a hostage to be traded for Fethullah Gulen has exacerbated what was already a politicized prosecution. It was an aggressively stupid thing to do: inter alia, strikes at a part of American politics that Trump cannot ignore.

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  7. 24 minutes ago

    Rarely happens that I dissent from , but his argument that "should no longer be thought of as a Western ally" because of behaviour like holding Pastor Andrew Brunson is one that I suspect will only gain force over time.

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  8. Retweeted
    2 hours ago

    The Iran Deal?

    What happened the last time a President chose America's enemies over its friends
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    2 hours ago

    US Vice President Pence said Thursday that if Turkey does not take immediate action to free Andrew Craig Brunson, "the United States of America will impose severe economic sanctions on Turkey." He spoke at the close of a three-day conference on religious freedom.

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    5 hours ago

    Very interesting thread on yesterday's attacks in Suwayda, most deadly of any in entire Syrian war. Russia aiding Syrian regime in pressuring semi-autonomous Druze: transferring IS fighters to zone where they can target Suwayda, demanding handover of intransigent Druze leaders.

    1-Multiple ISIS attacks killing 100s in otherwise tranquil Druze province of Suwayda in S Syria come on heels of Russia + regime pressure to end relative autonomy & privileges afforded during…
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    2 hours ago

    The Syrian government has begun issuing death notices for political detainees at an unprecedented rate, according to groups that monitor the prisons, in an effort to resolve the fate of thousands of missing Syrians as the regime prevails in its civil war.

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  12. 2 hours ago

    Be interesting to see if the U.S. responds publicly to the /'s suggestion it will help in --'s proposed campaign of mass-slaughter in Idlib and in joint attacks on NATO's . One highly doubts it; the PKK has literally got away with murder so far.

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  13. 2 hours ago

    As notes: our partner in , the /, a paragon of liberalism and Western values, "indefinitely postponed" the final stage of an election that was already a Soviet-style sham, excluding thousands of Arabs and run under conditions of suffocating autocracy.

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  14. 2 hours ago

    Our partner force in , the / is further formalizing its close relationship with the / system and mulling joint offensive operations against a member. So that's all going well.

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  15. 2 hours ago

    I am not advanced enough to create the sign, but this is a sound opinion.

    |￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣| I HAVE READ LORD OF THE RINGS AND CONCUR…
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  16. 2 hours ago

    26 July 1952: The [deeply imperfect] liberal interlude in is brought to an end and the era of dictatorship begins: King Farouk is overthrown by a group of military officers headed by Gamal Abdel Nasser. In time this pattern will be repeated in Iraq, Somalia, Libya, etc.

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  17. 3 hours ago

    : 1945: Potsdam Declaration calls for Japan's unconditional surrender 1945: Winston Churchill resigns, replaced by Clement Attlee 1947: Truman signs the National Security Act, establishing DoD, CIA, NSC and Joint Chiefs 1948: Truman desegregates the military with EO 9981

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  18. 4 hours ago

    The man works for 's Press TV.

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    4 hours ago

    Former cricketer Imran Khan claims victory in Pakistan's election amid accusations of vote rigging by rivals

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    5 hours ago

    A sniper from "C" Company, 5th Battalion, The Black Watch in position in a ruined building in Gennep, Holland, 14 February 1945.

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    21 hours ago

    Trapped White Helmets who didn’t make the evacuation live in fear, seek a way out -

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