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

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Joined December 2011
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  1. Aug 21

    regime forces arrested Khedher Helihil ex-commander of al-Sebtain Brigade who "reconciled" with the regime from his house in al-Refid town in
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    Aug 18

    Russia ramps up its campaign to rehabilitate and normalize the Assad regime. $ is secondary. Legitimacy is primary. Just say no to reconstruction. For more, see this.

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  3. Aug 19

    There's a special place in hell for the people who promoted "reconciliations" as a real thing

    Mass arrests continuing in areas 'reconciled' with regime
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  4. Aug 18

    Here we go: new statue of Hafez el-Assad built in Homs

    بتكلفة 50 مليون ليرة سورية، صنم جديد لحافظ الاسد في مدينة حمص
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  5. Aug 17

    Btw, watch repairers were disproportionately represented among late 20th century Syrian Salafi scholars, most prominent being al-Albani and Abd al-Qadir al-Arna'ut

    When you are an anti-Islamist liberal but also an anti-Semite Headline reads:…
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    Aug 16

    16/8/2012 locals of Qatana west town found more than 60 burned bodies in nearby junk yard, locals said they heard&saw military helicopter flying for 45 minutes over the area,the hands were tied back and had civilian clothes,I would never forget this scene

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    Aug 13

    Hey guys, apologies for the frequency of posts, but I did a lot of interviews recently. Turning to the south, I take a look at life after the rebellion there:interview w/former rebel in east Deraa countryside now involved in Russian-backed V Corps project

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    Aug 13

    He’s traded with ; acquired land expropriated from displaced civilians; and become super rich out of ’s conflict & destruction. - Meet ’s latest moneyman & likely route around international sanctions - Samer Foz.

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    Aug 12

    Dans les camps de Bachar al-Assad : "Tous les soirs, on déchargeait les corps" À la une de Libération demain.

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  10. Aug 11

    There's also some dude who justified bombing hospitals in Aleppo and made fun of dead bodies from regime airstrikes, yet still get retweets from prominent Syria watchers

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  11. Aug 11

    If your problem with Syrian regime is about "failures" and "shortcomings" (rather than, let's say, crimes of extermination), you're indeed totally blind, at best

    So-called Assadists are not blind to system’s shortcomings & failures. They are against change led by chaotic armed men who will end up deciding next phase. They believe one can’t topple 50 year-old system and hope for the best the day after.
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    Aug 11

    ARTICLE | Quand Rachad Antonius relaie la désinformation sur les « casques blancs » - D'après un entretien avec

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    Aug 10

    This is why Russian bots and trolls smear the White Helmets. Because they document Russia's war crimes & rescue from the rubble those Russia failed to kill. 20 human beings perished in a Russian strike on Urum al-Kubra, Aleppo today.

    Among the victims were six children, two women, and an entire family that was crushed under the rubble of their house when it collapsed. The count of injured has reached 50, including many…
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    Aug 8

    What do you predict will happen in the coming weeks in Syria’s Idlib Governorate? , , , and respond at Diwan:

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    Aug 8

    Mohamed Boaydati has been evacuated from eastern Ghouta on 13.04.2018 with hundreds of families to northern Syria. A few weeks ago he decided to return home because of the bad economic situation in the north. However, he was arrested by Syrian security and died under torture.

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    Aug 8

    We are witnessing the birth pains of a new and vile authoritarianism in Syria by

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    Aug 6

    Assad regime forcibly-conscripted 350 young men from , the regime canceled the "reconciliation agreement"and detained them before moving them to army training bases although the agreement gave them 6months from April

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  18. Aug 6

    After reading only 20% of this long piece I can already conclude it's a must-read

    Syrians must do something about the conflict everyone else talks about. This essay attempts to make their experience more tangible
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    Aug 5

    East Ghouta : Regime forces made large-scale raids and arrests in causing fear and panic among residents.

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    Aug 4

    "the Syrian genocide is met by a state of global denial, where the left, the right, and the mainstream all compete with one another to avert their eyes and formulate cultural discourses, genocidal themselves, to help them see and feel nothing."

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