Ryan O'Farrell

@ryanmofarrell

////// Crack the Sky, Shake the Earth \\\\\\ Eyes on non-state actors, institutions and failing states - JHU SAIS - Levant / DR Congo / Elsewhere

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Joined March 2014
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  1. 18 hours ago

    Jaysh al-Islam, deported to northern Syria in the offensive on E Ghouta, is re-establishing itself in N Aleppo, integrating into the Turkish-run National Army and building a 1400-home town outside Sousian for IDPs from Ghouta

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  2. 21 hours ago

    Kavanaugh yelling at and interrupting the Senators he's ostensibly hoping will confirm him seems like a bad strategy.

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  3. 21 hours ago

    Zenki's says that DMZ will not be administrated separately from other rebel-held areas (retaining their local councils & institutions), that rebels will retain control as opposed to a third party, and that DMZ will extend into the regime side of the LoC as well

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  4. 22 hours ago

    Unnamed FSA commander says that rebels keep heavy weapons well behind the lines until shortly before battle anyway, so there is little to withdraw from the 15km demilitarized zone being set up by Russia and Turkey around Idlib

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  5. 23 hours ago

    Should definitely also give a listen to this episode in which talks with about the Tigers

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  6. Sep 27

    If there's one thing all the Twitter fanboy hordes can agree on about Syria, it's that labels about war crimes, ideological extremism and acts of terrorism shouldn't be consistently applied to all actors but should instead be used as partisan cudgels in Western discourse.

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  7. Sep 26

    Suheil al-Hassan's Tiger Forces have emerged as Russia's key loyalist partner on the ground in military operations, with Russian troops embedded with the Tigers within weeks of the Sept 2015 intervention & closely integrated ever since, by

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    Sep 26

    Within weeks of intervening in , 's ground forces were fighting alongside the Tiger Forces. The intimate relationship between the two has only grown deeper since. Part 4 of my series for

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    Sep 14

    From 1980s Afghanistan.

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    Sep 25

    This month made remarks about “so-called open-source intelligence provided by proscribed terrorist groups” in relation to Syria. Her comments were both alarming and wrong. Here’s why:

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  11. Sep 24

    Interesting excerpt from the underlying draft regional summary for the USMC by Statfor's Nate Hughes, published by Wikileaks

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  12. Sep 24

    "[T]he opposition was seen as a temporary tool, to be discarded once the goal of ensuring a more ‘friendly’ autocratic Baathist structure was in place."

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  13. Sep 24

    As early as Aug 2011, US officials "were highly ambivalent about ‘regime change’ in Syria", hoping that support for rebels would merely pressure regime into making reforms rather than overthrowing Assad, while "military intervention was not on the cards"

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    Sep 21

    This estimate is one I agree with: “Al-Hashemi () estimates that around 2,000 IS jihadists are still active in Iraq and around 3,000 in eastern Syria, a large proportion of them foreigners.”

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  15. Sep 21

    People who have been marketing Assad for years as a "lesser evil" and painting all of his opponents as ISIS are now selling the regime by saying that we should resign ourselves to rehabilitating it because its current dominant position is merely an unfortunate fait accompli.

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    Sep 21

    Venezuela’s human rights crisis: - 8,292 extrajudicial executions in the last two years between 2015-2017 - 4,667 (22%) of homicides in 2016 were at the hands of security officials - 87% live in poverty - 65% increase in maternal mortality - 30% increase in infant mortality

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    Sep 21

    Sorry, what ?! My DMs may have been sent to developers for a more than a year??

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  18. Sep 21

    Big issue with recent Surandon episode is this fetishization of "alternative" non-mainstream media, as if it necessarily provides better coverage & analysis. It doesn't, and often veers into conspiracy theories & imposed, highly Western-centric narratives for a variety of reasons

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    Sep 21

    Major regime security mobilization prevents an anti- demonstration at al-Omari Mosque, one of the most prominent symbols of the Syrian Revolution, after Friday prayers

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  20. Sep 20

    Pro-regime news site Damas Post reporting that contracts for 6500 fighters of the Russia-backed Tiger Forces have concluded, covering fighters on every front

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