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Senior Fellow , Columnist & NYT Bestselling Author . "a highly-talented color-changing lizard" (ISIS Telegram). hhassan@timep.org

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    Aug 26

    My deep-dive into Baghdadi’s speech in context, for : “This time he seemed confident of the group’s ability to weather the current storm.”

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  2. 3 hours ago

    This comes about 10 days after HTS’s Jolani bashes Turkey as a defender of civilians in Idlib:

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    Jolani: •Both enemies & friends recognize that Hayat Tahrir al-Sham has now become the greatest defender of Sunnis in Syria…
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    4 hours ago

    Senior Fellow helps contextualize the silence from Muslim governments on the on the crackdowns in China against Uighurs, citing a lack of media coverage in the Arab world:

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  4. 4 hours ago

    Remarkable! Turkey, which knows HTS more than anyone else, designates it as a terror group and links it to AL QAEDA!

    Turkey listed HTS as a terror group associated with Al Nusra and Al Qaeda on Wednesday. The designation says HTS’s area of activity is in…
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  5. 5 hours ago

    Iraqi politics is a mess: Both Nasr (of PM Haider Abadi) & Fateh (of the PMUs/Hashd) are now in shambles, although things seem to be moving in PMUs’s favor, and further enhancing Sadr’s position as the kingmaker in the upcoming government:

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  6. 7 hours ago

    Piercing Through Assad’s Reconstruction Mirage in Syria

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  7. Retweeted
    Aug 29

    “The instant of possibility in a city that has seen too much. And the reality that while the world has not caught up with , has yet to invest in the work now underway, the city is doing its best to look forward”

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  8. 19 hours ago

    U.S. Muslims increasingly harassed for working with Jewish groups, activists say

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    Aug 29

    "[Coalition] metrics ... led to the failure to detect that ISIS was gaining strength. ... ISIS, even now, is far stronger than in 2008 ... ISIS’s key institutions...have held intact. All this is before even considering ISIS’s foreign operations".

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  10. 20 hours ago

    The Iraqi PM is brilliant: he justified his short-lived alliance with the PMUs as a cross-sectarian one; later took photos with the PMUs & said the PMUs shouldn’t be politicized; & he now relieves an apparent rival from position coz he wants government positions to be apolitical!

    PM has relieved the National Security Adviser, Head of the PMF Commission and the National Security Service, Falih Al-Fayyad of his duties. is committed to ensuring that senior government officials are apolitical and protect the…
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    Aug 29

    Completely agree with this statement. Moreover, we've been in for 17 years now, and it's mind boggling to consider, but what exactly is the strategy? Clearly, tactics successes have not amounted to anything close to a strategic breakthrough.

    As with al-Qaeda, the tactical successes of repeatedly killing ISIS-K commanders are real but are not enough to change the strategic quagmire.
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    Aug 30

    Maybe I need to reassess Qais Khazali. Seems like he was highly cooperative with his US captors as he angled for a bartered release. Read here how he gave up lots of tactically useful information on Badr, Sadr and Kataib Hezbollah via

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  13. 23 hours ago

    I’ll elaborate on this in time, but I don’t believe that Idlib will be an Armageddon as most of us seem to think. It’ll be more Deir Ezzor than Raqqa.

    End of the line for Hay'et Tahrir al-Sham in Syria? - by - It is hard to see how HTS can survive what seems to be an increasingly imminent assault on Idlib. It has few allies.
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    Aug 30

    “The technological revolutions now gathering momentum will in the next few decades confront humankind with the hardest trials it has yet encountered.” argues that technology now favors tyranny:

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  15. Aug 29

    .’s thoughts on what US officials need to do in eastern Syria

    The visit of US envoy William Roback to the areas liberated from Daesh in Deir Ezzor and meeting with some tribal elders has caught my eye. This is an important step, but civilians in Deir Ezzor want real…
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  16. Aug 29

    As Iraq begins creating a new government & traditional allies disagree, there’s been plenty of behind-the-scenes action & intrigue – especially from the country’s neighbours in Iran.

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  17. Aug 29

    After some time of quiet, things are heating up in Syria. Next moves are key: “Mattis: US Troops Can’t Leave Syria Until UN Peace Talks Advance”

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  18. Aug 29

    As expected, Assad will likely go for the low-hanging fruit in Idlib - that allows him to 1) carve out more territory 2) without disrupting Russia’s understanding with Turkey *for now*: “Syrian army preparing phased Idlib assault: source”

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    Aug 29

    Another good report by and on political dealings behind the scenes as Iraq's ruling parties try to put togehter a new govt

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    Aug 29
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    People there want concrete evidence and action, not just visits and media coverage. People are demanding reassurance about their future.

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    Aug 29

    . in : leaders say the U.S. is “suffering a nervous breakdown” in its war against . The time has come for a new strategy.

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