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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. 45 minutes ago

    There is a lot of optimism seeping into the American view of peace talks with the Taliban. We have been here before; never ends well. Right now it looks even worse with the Taliban engaged in a wide-ranging offensive in key strategic zones of .

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  3. 1 hour ago

    New piece for : the Taliban offensive in Ghazni, and other areas of , is part of a deteriorating military situation the US has been dishonest about, and the "peace" track looks even worse: concessions leading to surrender by another name.

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  4. Retweeted
    8 hours ago

    ISF have pretty much locked down the cities, but ISIS nocturnal dominance of rural areas in north central Iraq (north SaD, Kirkuk, parts of Ninawa) is really something right now. About 3-4 house raids/bombings per week targeting mukhtars, tribal resistance forces, etc. 1/4

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    3 hours ago

    URGENT -- Casualty toll in explosion inside a Kabul classroom reaches 25 dead and 35 wounded.

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    6 hours ago

    Afghan forces appear to have finally pushed Taliban fighters from the strategic city of Ghazni, as shopkeepers and residents warily returned to the streets after days of intense ground fighting and US airstrikes

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    Aug 14

    Exclusive: Chinese police are creating a global registry of Uighurs, including Uighurs living in the US, demanding their phone numbers, addresses, and even license plate numbers.

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    5 hours ago

    "The jailer was proud to be able to break the neck of a detainee in his hands" - Najah alBukai, a Fine Artist who drew this sketch and a survivor from the Syrian Human Slaughterhouses.

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    18 hours ago

    California man indicted for conspiring to ship 43 laser boresighters, 85 day rifle scopes, 30 night vision rifle scopes, tactical flashlights, a digital monocular, 5 radios, and 1 bulletproof vest to Ahrar ash-Sham, in violation of US sanctions.

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    19 hours ago

    "Every time he talks the dollar goes up," says an Istanbul shopkeeper as Erdogan's face appeared on the TV. Today he told Turks to boycott US goods, and to buy Samsungs instead of Iphones. By

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  11. Retweeted
    19 hours ago

    A personal reflection on Rabaa, life and photography - five years later. A challenging time to revisit and write about.

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    19 hours ago

    My interview for about my research on Syria and experience working for Israeli human rights NGOs

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  13. 17 hours ago

    Finally read the story of Capt. Harith al-Sudani, a member of the Falcon Intelligence Cell, ’s counterterrorism intelligence unit, who infiltrated and saved countless lives before he was discovered and murdered.

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  14. 17 hours ago

    "Bringing hellfire onto Idlib and its millions of inhabitants will not deal with terrorists": gives a detailed overview of the last insurgent enclave in and some suggestions to avoid a catastrophic humanitarian and strategic meltdown

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  15. 18 hours ago

    "The outcome of Brexit, taxes and welfare, immigration and the National Health Service—none of these questions is more important than" preventing Jeremy Corbyn becoming Prime Minister, writes . He's right.

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  16. 18 hours ago

    A really brilliant bit of journalism from The : documenting the evidence that the Asad regime used poison gas (chlorine for certain, possibly Sarin) in Douma on 7 April 2018. Asad, Russia, and Iran lie about the attack to this day.

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  17. 20 hours ago

    : in Terengganu state, ruled by the opposition Pan-Malaysian Islamist Party (PAS), two women have been sentenced to caning and a fine for being homosexual by the Shari'a High Court. Necessary as a "lesson and reminder" to society, said the judge.

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    22 hours ago

    "Excuse me, sir, but the mask falling wouldn't unglove the fist, and if the fist is ungloved it can't be mailed, because you'd wear the glove under the mail, and if the fist is mailed then is it really a naked attack, unless you can see through the mail and…um, sorry. Carry on."

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  19. Retweeted
    Aug 13

    The whole mess has now reached the point where there is no middle ground between recognising him as a man sympathetic to terrorism or one so clueless as to be unfit to be PM (or, frankly, hold any public office)

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  20. 21 hours ago

    I mean, I have to admit that as disgusting as I find this intellectually and morally, my primary reaction is awe. It's quite difficult not to be impressed by someone prepared to brazen it out like this.

    Now THAT’S more like it, Aaron. Fair play to the lad Bastani, he’s looked at an absolute clusterfuck of a situation and decided to make it a *positive*. …
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  21. 21 hours ago

    The movement still struggles to separate itself clearly from eliminationist anti- forces, in this case the , a pioneer of international terrorism [and a some-time Soviet proxy]. v

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