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    Oct 12

    Excited to share my latest research, for CTC Sentinel (), on where jihadism is heading next. Fracture? Convergence? Al-Qaeda back on the top as the standard bearer of global jihad?

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    9 hours ago

    There's a missed story in this. say schools tell them which items they need as part of their school uniform list. "For a number of schools this year, they requested the option of the hijab.” So why opt for a phantom-like black khimar?

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  3. 4 hours ago

    Strong piece by on how the U.S. has helped nurture a new generation of Mideast dictators:

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  4. 4 hours ago

    Con el ISIS no salen las cuentas | EL PAÍS

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    Oct 9

    End of thread: it’s a critical couple of weeks now for with the deadlines coming up. There’s a sense of tentative hope among civilians we’ve spoken to but by no means is a potential Idlib operation completely off the table at this point.

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  6. 12 hours ago

    In Deir Ezzor, we use the Turkish word for “spoon” (khashooga), خاشوگة rather than “mil’aqa" ملعقة.

    Nice historical-philological thread about the name Jamal Khashoggi ("Handsome Spooner")
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    13 hours ago

    Trump on 60 minutes, speaking on Jamal Khashoggi: “We’re going to get to the bottom of it and there will be severe punishment.”

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  8. 12 hours ago

    The SDF is generally known for being a lot less corrupt than the Syrian regime, but there is clear corruption at a higher level. Funds seem to be diverted elsewhere...

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  9. 12 hours ago

    The US-led Coalition isn’t doing enough for IDPs in terms of basic supplies & security. Terrible reports from the ground, a far cry from the preparations outside Mosul. More evidence of shortsighted behavior in a vital area for the enduring defeat of ISIS. Officials know this.

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  10. 12 hours ago

    ISIS releases photos of the raid it conducted on the IDPs camp outside Hajin. Several guards killed, a few captured, including a known underage conscript from Shuhayl.

    fighters kidnapped some 130 families from a refugee camp in the eastern province of Deir Ezzor, Syrian Observatory reports. The mass kidnapping took place during an attack on the camp, which is controlled by SDF
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  11. 15 hours ago

    All these issues & more are examined here beyond who said what online:

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  12. 15 hours ago

    ISIS internal debates should be seen primarily as part of its attempts to tighten its ideology at a time when it’s lost the caliphate, for discipline & because it has to deal with the realities of no longer being confined in a “dar al-Islam.” Lots of fatwa changes on such matters

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  13. 15 hours ago

    • Both al-Qaeda & ISIS will remain on their ideological lanes • no sizable defections from ISIS to al-Qaeda are likely, as happened in reverse in 2014-2015. • internal frictions are widely misrepresented & inflated

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    16 hours ago

    Jamal Khashoggi is being described as an "Islamist" and as "Muslim Brotherhood". In this talk we had with him in May, we asked him about that. Listen to him in his own words.

    Jamal Khashoggi was a renowned Saudi journalist and former royal advisor. He was last seen entering the Saudi consulate in Istanbul last week. …
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    Oct 12

    This is an important and deeply researched piece on the future of global jihad from

    Two Houses Divided: How Conflict in Syria Shaped the Future of Jihadism by
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  16. 18 hours ago

    Trump changes his tone & answer on . He says that Jamal was a reporter (“and you’ll be surprised I say that”), there is something disgusting about his killing, and there will be a severe punishment if proven.

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    "There will be severe punishment." In his first 60 Minutes interview since taking office, President Trump tells Lesley Stahl that if Saudi Arabia is found to be responsible for journalist Jamal Khashoggi…
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  17. Oct 12

    “The nations that gain from this affair are two regional enemies of Saudi Arabia: Qatar and Turkey.”

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  18. Oct 12

    “MbS spent two years crafting an image of reform-minded indispensability. If the consensus holds that he killed Khashoggi, he will take years to get back to where he was before Khashoggi stepped into the consulate.”

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  19. Oct 12

    ISIS runs a one page report on an allegedly botched U.S. raid in the Anbar desert that led to the killing of Coalition soldiers. US soldiers allegedly landed & searched one of ISIS hideouts in the middle of the desert, not realizing fighters are still hiding in a secure corner:

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  20. Oct 12

    .’s coverage of our event yesterday at SETA: “US shifts its Syria policy to counter Iran, rather than Daesh”

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    Oct 12

    "Absolute monarchy is not a threat to any country. You say 'absolute monarchy' like it’s a threat." -- Mohammed Bin Salman, March, 2018:

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