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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. 15 hours ago

    Finally getting to a long essay (a book, really) by , published in August. The assessment of stands up rather better than some other profiles written around that time.

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  3. 16 hours ago

    A few years ago, the consensus was that Gulf and other Arab allies needed to step up and take control of their region, so they have, and without U.S. leadership they're fashioning a dangerous, authoritarian, and ultimately unstable order, says .

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  4. 18 hours ago

    relayed a message through France telling 's "government" to move against the missile factories.

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  5. 18 hours ago

    will host an peace conference on 9 November, the first major one to be attended by the Taliban's Qatar-based political office.

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  6. 19 hours ago

    Glory be ... 🙄

    PKK and Daesh were controlled by U.S. military officers while fighting Turkey
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  7. 19 hours ago

    Interview with about his experience caught up in the Trump-Russia fiasco. A lot of threads for curious minds to pull on here; what he says is testable. Either he's lying, or the story in much of the press for the last two years is upside down

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    22 hours ago

    Here is a video that shows the scale of this disaster. Thousands of fish die mysteriously in province, . 😢

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  9. 21 hours ago

    is "less certain of the military’s good intentions" and capacity in , but so late in the hour, after Moscow has enabled to embed so very deeply, and now the options are all are that much grimmer. v

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  10. 21 hours ago

    . documents 's endurance. Sunni rivals are being eliminated at a really stark rate. The rushed military campaign has reset the political conditions that gave IS its revival last time. ft. , ,

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    Nov 1

    I can't stress how important this technically impressive project is. Accountability for Russia's actions in Syria has been fleeting, and proving their involvement in specific attacks that caused civilian harm remains a significant task.

    Today Syrian Archive published a new documenting alleged Russian attacks on Syrian civilians and civilian infrastucture
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  12. 22 hours ago

    's initial intervention paid little attention to ; the caliphate had allowed them to construct was away from regime core zones, and was being dealt with by the US. Moscow's focus was assisting in the crimes against humanity to crush a civilian population in revolt

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  13. 22 hours ago

    spokesman: "Before Russia’s Airspace Forces came in in late September 2015, ISIS controlled 70 per cent of Syria’s territory". It's not all as mad as that and gives a good rundown of Moscow's outlook, especially Atana-ising Geneva.

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    Jun 28

    is huge. Source:

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    Nov 2

    Some Iranian planes refused fuel in Turkey - Turkish media

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    Nov 2

    If you can't make it to my talk today on Salafism in America, you can watch a live stream on their Twitter feed from 13.30 GMT

    We will be live streaming this event today at 13:30 GMT. Keep an eye on our page!
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  17. Nov 2

    's message: - isn't letting the case drop - Good relations with and the King; this is focused on (without naming) - invokes the authority of and the Vienna Convention to demand answers

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  18. Nov 2

    This is over-exaggerated, but the fact is now drawing the Saddam (and Qaddafi) analogies in the mainstream press—and privately among people who are not hostile to Western relations with the Kingdom—is the worrying part for the government.

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  19. Nov 2

    In Deir Ezzor, eastern , the West's anti-IS partner force, the /, tortured 18-year-old Abdullah al-Suwaydan and then shot him dead because he had been smuggling oil to try to make some money in the scarce conditions of the province.

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  20. Nov 2

    Joshua Krasna: should cultivate relations with any willing Arab state, but should resist the impulse to formulate a "moderate Sunni camp" policy since no such thing exists and never will. She certainly shouldn't be betting on individual leaders.

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  21. Nov 2

    Morality aside, the murder added a data point to a pattern of foreign policy decisions that was already worrying allies, in the region and the West, writes . Almost makes you nostalgic for the days before "dynamic" leadership

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