Sam Heller

@AbuJamajem

Senior Analyst, Non-State Armed Groups, . Looking at jihadism, one eye still on Syria. Jamajem means ☠️☠️☠️. Contact:

Beirut, Lebanon
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Joined September 2011
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    Jun 20

    Our latest at : On the now-endangered “de-escalation” covering Syria’s southwest, and what can be done to avert its bloody military end:

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  2. 1 hour ago

    Bashar al-Jaafari speaking in Sochi today on Turkey’s Astana commitments in Idlib.

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    2 hours ago

    Rebels and civilians who refuse to surrender to the regime depart from Jubatha al-Khashab, Quneitra, today toward rebel-held Idlib.

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  4. 2 hours ago

    Bashar al-Jaafari: “The main obstacle to the return of displaced Syrians to their country is unilateral coercive measures [i.e., sanctions] imposed by the United States and the European Union... We demand these measures be lifted immediately.”

    || : المعوق الرئيسي لعودة المهجرين السوريين الى بلدهم هو الاجراءات الاحادية القسرية المفروضة على من قبل الولايات المتحدة والاتحاد الاوروبي.. ونطالب برفع هذه الاجراءات فورا
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    6 hours ago

    With this summer's protests, finds, the people of have taken the initiative in battling poor services and corruption. The ruling elites, at long last, should follow their cues.

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  6. 10 hours ago

    .’s latest highlights the space for ambiguity and grey between “state” and “non-state.” Iraq’s Hashd: a quasi-state civil-military entity using politics to secure its own parochial interests and prerogatives:

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    19 hours ago

    Good that this irrealistic idea is finally explicitly denied. Can we all now focus on the much more relevant question of whether Russia can broker an Israeli-Iranian modus vivendi in Syria? Moscow has no Iran evaporation potion but does have correct relations with both sides.

    Exclusive: Russian ambassador to Israel Anatoly Viktorov told me in an interview for that Russia will not be able to force Iran to pull its forces out of Syria
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  8. 21 hours ago

    . talks to west Aleppo rebels who see the curtain coming down on Syria’s war:

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    Jul 30

    1) We are publishing a new report today about 's paramilitary groups, the al-Shaabi, and the challenge they pose to the rebuilding of the state. .../2

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  10. Jul 29

    . and on how Europe's prisons are handling their jihadist inmates – whether trying to deradicalize them or just stop them from contaminating others – many of whom are, in any case, up for release soon.

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  11. Jul 28

    . talks to Fadel Shaker, whiling days away as a fugitive in Ain al-Hilweh:

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  12. Jul 28

    . and talk to refugees in Arsal weighing return to Syria and dig into the obstacles even for those willing to go back, including extended waits for government approvals that often aren't forthcoming:

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  13. Jul 28

    .'s Iran-U.S. Trigger List adds an Israeli entry tracking the risk of Israeli-Iranian escalation regionally, including in Syria's southwest:

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  14. Jul 27

    For non-infrastructural reasons why Syrian refugees are reluctant to return, see this, by ’s and :

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  15. Jul 27

    More refugee return–reconstruction linkage: In interview with Russian news agencies, President Assad appeals for Syrian refugees to come home and says main obstacle to their return is destruction of Syria's infrastructure and homes.

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    Jul 27

    Syria will have to take into account Turkey’s interests while liberating Idlib — expert © EPA-EFE/MOHAMMED BADRA

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    Jul 27

    Following hostilities in southern , as many as 182,618 people remain displaced. The continues to seek cross-line access to , which is hosting a large number of displaced people.

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    Jul 26

    A contact of mine, former rebel with a MOC-backed faction, which later received Israeli support to fight ISIS in Daraa, is now fighting alongside regime's forces against ISIS. He told me that the army is treating them, former rebels, surprisingly well.

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    Jul 26

    Regime forces advancing in Basin as heavy air campaign continues

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  20. Jul 25

    .: Southerners caught off-guard by Syrian officers' polite treatment, expedient handling of security cases: Southern settlement includes rebels but not Civil Defense, whose names have been broadcast to checkpoints.

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    Jul 25

    قحطان الدمشقي:هجوم السويداء جاء لتخفيف الضغط عن"جيش خالد"في ريف درعا الغربي،شارك به عناصر التنظيم المنسحبين من مخيم اليرموك والحجر الاسود ومعظمهم من عشائر الجولان ولديهم صلاة قرابة مع المقاتلين بريف درعا الغربي اغلب الضحايا من"نسور الزوبعة" الميليشيا العسكرية للحزب السوري القومي

    مستفيداً من عدة عوامل أعطت العمل فاعلية وزخم كبيرين أهمها وحدة ومركزية ونفاذ القرار العسكري على جيبي التنظيم في بادية السويداء و…
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