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

Washington, DC
Joined March 2014
497 Photos and videos Photos and videos

You may also like

·

Worldwide trends

Tweets

You blocked @ryanmofarrell

Are you sure you want to view these Tweets? Viewing Tweets won't unblock @ryanmofarrell

  1. 16 hours ago

    Landis is a Twitter troll, not a scholar

    What is the Free Syrian Army? Were the militias that traded around recently released Japanese prisoner Jumpei Yasuda in Syria Free Syrian Army? This is the question raised in a dispute b/n &
    Show this thread
    18 retweets 41 likes
    Undo
  2. Oct 31

    Amazing work tracking the construction of the re-education camps in which China has imprisoned as many as a million Uyghurs, roughly one in twelve.

    0:10
    Over 700,000m2 of construction since June. The size of Xinjiang's re-education camp network has more than doubled in the last year. Read our latest findings analysing 28 separate detenti…
    10 retweets 12 likes
    Undo
  3. Retweeted
    Oct 30

    The entire structure of the - mapped entirely through their own Facebook posts. My latest for - Core leadership - Group and sub-group affiliations - Areas of recruitment - Estimated sizes

    6 replies 57 retweets 100 likes
    Show this thread
    Show this thread
    Undo
  4. Oct 30

    -50% of Afghans live in government-controlled areas -41% live in contested areas -9% live in Taliban-controlled areas

    10 retweets 13 likes
    Undo
  5. Retweeted
    Oct 27

    . data shows that so far roughly half this year's violence & protest activity in has occurred in just 1 province: . All while the region faces a major outbreak. . dissects the two interrelated crises:

    8 retweets 5 likes
    Undo
  6. Oct 25

    New NLF military council formed to handle security and administration in the southern Rawj plain in SW Idlib; [speculative] possibly related to the opening of the M4 highway between Aleppo and Latakia under Sochi agreement

    16 retweets 8 likes
    Undo
  7. Oct 25

    New episode with discussing the growing YPG insurgency in the aftermath of Operation Olive Branch in which dozens of Turkish-backed FSA fighters and civilians have been killed in ambushes and kidnappings/executions

    3 retweets 5 likes
    Undo
  8. Oct 23

    Turkish officer at observation point outside Morek in N Hama says that joint patrols in demilitarized zone will begin in a few days, with Russia deploying armored vehicles to regime areas opposite Morek while 100k civilians wait to return to homes in area

    10 retweets 12 likes
    Undo
  9. Oct 19

    Regime roundups continue in E Ghouta, with more than 40 former opposition activists detained in Saqba, Ein Tarma, Jisreen and Hamouriyah over the past two days, despite them having completed the "reconciliation" process

    19 retweets 7 likes
    Undo
  10. Oct 19

    "Initially the king was unaware of the extent of the crisis, partly because MbS aides had been directing the king to glowing news about the country on Saudi TV channels"

    1 like
    Undo
  11. Oct 17

    Prominent ex-rebel commanders include: -Abu Sidra (Artillery and Missile Regiment) -Raed al-Radi (Fallujah Houran Division) -Imad Abu Zuriq (Yarmouk Army) -Bara al-Nabulsi (Muataz Billah Army) -Abu Iyad al-Qayid (Abu Ubaida bin Jarrah Brigade)

    1 reply 1 retweet 4 likes
    Show this thread
    Show this thread
    Undo
  12. Oct 17

    Russia & Jordan negotiating the establishment of a new military formation in Deraa composed of former rebels with which Jordan has/d longstanding ties, including some who evacuated to northern Syria after rebels were defeated in June/July regime offensive

    2 replies 17 retweets 17 likes
    Show this thread
    Show this thread
    Undo
  13. Oct 17

    Following the implementation of the demilitarized zone, preparations now underway to reopen the crossings with regime-held N Hama at HTS-controlled Morek and Ahrar al-Sham-controlled Qalaat al-Madiq

    2 retweets 3 likes
    Undo
  14. Oct 17

    Nearly a year after regime forces broke the IS siege of Deir Ez-Zor, residents from more damaged central districts are moving to more expensive northern neighborhoods due to the lack of reconstruction and services in the central areas of the city

    3 retweets 5 likes
    Undo
  15. Oct 14

    "Many of the [chemical weapons] attacks occurred in clusters [which] coincided with government offensives...there's nothing that scares people more than chemical weapons...residents have fled those areas and, more often than not, do not come back"

    22 retweets 11 likes
    Undo
  16. Oct 13

    Good thread on ongoing SDF offensive against the IS pocket on the east bank of the Euphrates in Deir ez-Zor

    1. forces in the area number roughly ~7000 fighters in total. They are almost entirely Arabs. Those doing the actual clashing are entirely Arabs. The Deir ez Zor Military Council is doing all the grunt work. YPG/J are holding secondary defensive positions and++
    Show this thread
    1 reply 4 retweets 12 likes
    Undo
  17. Oct 13

    Clashes over abandoned properties in E Aleppo between loyalist Sunni Beri clan and militia displaced from loyalist Shia villages of Fuah and Kafrayah, with militants from N Aleppo Shia villages Zahra and Nubl intervening on behalf of F&K militia

    1 reply 12 retweets 19 likes
    Undo
  18. Oct 10

    An incredibly interesting and detailed look at the political currents in American society as they actually are - rather than how they are represented on social media, by project at

    9 retweets 12 likes
    Undo
  19. Oct 9

    If Kanye doesn't say "you ain't got the answers Sergey!" at a UNSC meeting, none of this was worth it.

    1 like
    Undo
  20. Oct 7

    Meeting between Russians and representatives of reconciled factions at Hmeimem re-establishes 1500-fighter Fifth Corps component in W Deraa, less than a month after it was disbanded for failing to send 250 men to fight in the regime's offensive on Idlib

    7 retweets 14 likes
    Undo

@ryanmofarrell hasn't Tweeted yet.

Loading seems to be taking a while.

Twitter may be over capacity or experiencing a momentary hiccup. Try again or visit Twitter Status for more information.