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Focus on Syria and terrorism (jihadism, PKK, etc.) Occasional history digressions, especially on the Cold War. Likes are just bookmarks. RTs are ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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    Oct 26

    NEW: a deep dive into the long relationship between and al-Qaeda. v

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  2. 34 minutes ago

    On a day that has been awful so far and will surely get worse, offers a little break.

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    "What we want is…civilisation. … The Geneva Conventions, chamber music, Susan Sontag … that's what we aspire to. … Bear in mind none of us has been in New York before. There's the…
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  3. 35 minutes ago

    "What we want is…civilisation. … The Geneva Conventions, chamber music, Susan Sontag … that's what we aspire to. … Bear in mind none of us has been in New York before. There's the Broadway shows … there's also a lot of street crime, but I believe we can watch that for free."

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    7 hours ago

    claims its rocket destroyed a Houthi checkpoint yesterday in Za'j area of Walad al-Rabi' in NW al-Bayda'. I make this ISIS's 5th declared attack in during October. 3 attacks targeted . Only 2 have targeted Houthis. All were in al-Bayda'.

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    1 hour ago

    If you lament our “post truth” discourse and the decline of experts, and at the same time, speculate and give uninformed hot takes on a tragedy where we know nothing, you are not a serious person. Pray. Hope for the victims. Retweet useful information. And shut up.

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    5 hours ago

    Examining Iran's Long Relationship with Al-Qaeda via

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    2 hours ago

    We live in such dark times.

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    5 hours ago

    Oman says time to accept Israel in region, offers help for peace

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    3 hours ago

    Near a US soldier fires a star cluster to highlight his position to Turkish forces on the other side of the demarcation line

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  10. 3 hours ago

    "The ECHR...upheld French and Belgian bans of burqas and other Islamic garments that fully cover women’s faces. In 2017, it also endorsed a decision by Swiss authorities that Muslim schoolgirls had to take compulsory swimming classes."

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  11. 3 hours ago

    In the early 1990s, 's military chief, Imad Mughniya, an officer in 's Revolutionary Guards responsible for the Marine barracks bombing, personally made a deal with Usama bin Ladin to train al-Qaeda jihadists in the Bekaa Valley.

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    4 hours ago

    "All these Jews need to die," suspect tells police on scene at Pittsburgh synagogue shooting.

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    4 hours ago

    Multiple casualties after shooting near Pittsburgh synagogue.

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  14. 3 hours ago

    Some thoughts on Germany and France meet with Turkey and Russia in Istanbul today on , ostensibly to firm-up the ceasefire/demilitarised zone/whatever in and re-invigorate Geneva. Spoiler: highly doubtful progress can be made on either front.

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    6 hours ago

    The cover for just approved .. although doesn’t have it listed yet you can still preorder the book or the kindle version for April delivery

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  16. 5 hours ago

    It's difficult to imagine the actually releasing Western members just because the political price would be so high, and they're currently doing so well (not many narco-terrorists get to create schisms in .) But there are plenty of other ways they could end up out.

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  17. 5 hours ago

    Western governments, for understandable reasons, don't want their citizens who joined back, and for a number of them there is an added complication: they can't let the Americans deal with it because the U.S. system has the death penalty.

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  18. 5 hours ago

    Skipping over the legal oddity of our terrorists holding the terrorists, it seems pretty clear that the is running out of patience holding Western jihadists. It is struggling with locals, though it has tried to use them as leverage in installing its governance structure.

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  19. 5 hours ago

    It is one of the most bizarre predicaments that in that Western citizens who joined are currently being held by our partner force, the , a post-Bolshevik group of gangsters and narco-barons that are, and have been for many years, on our own terrorism list.

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  20. 5 hours ago

    Ashraf Mahmud, a British citizen, joined but apparently realised this was a "mistake" and has now surrendered to the , which says it won't hold him indefinitely.

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  21. 5 hours ago

    Just heard the phrase "straight-to-DVD". Apparently "straight-to-video" is passé 😑

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