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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. 9 hours ago

    "Middle Eastern geopolitical rivalries are currently playing out in Washington ... a lucrative and increasingly nasty influence game ... in which the opinions of American Jews were viewed as one of the most important pieces on the board." v

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    19 hours ago

    UAE base in Somaliland operational by June, to include coastal surveillance system monitoring 800km coastline; 42sqkm facility with L-shaped naval jetty 75% complete, military airport over 60% complete—Bashe Awil Omar, key diplomatic insider in base talks

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    18 hours ago

    The Salafi Worldview and the Hermeneutical Limits of Mainstream Sunni Critique of Salafi-Jihadism - Adis Duderija, Studies in Conflict & Terrorism:

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    12 hours ago

    My book on children in terrorist groups for was just updated on and is available for pre-order 🎉🍾

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    18 hours ago

    REWARD OFFER- PKK key leaders. Provide information and payment may be possible. 100% confidentiality guaranteed. Relocation may be possible.

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    12 hours ago

    Actors beholden to Saudi Arabia & others are putting such words to action here in the US. American authorities need to put an end to this. It’s real, and shouldn’t be tolerated at all.

    The unprecedented and unjustified media attack on Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman will never be forgotten.
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  8. 11 hours ago

    Some very helpful background on in Bulgaria (and indeed the Balkans), by .

    Three men from were arrested trying to enter on Israeli passports on 2 November.
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  9. 11 hours ago

    Three men from were arrested trying to enter on Israeli passports on 2 November.

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    11 hours ago

    Washington Can Roll Back Iran’s Influence. Here’s How. By me & ⁦⁩ the U.S. how to achieve the maximum pressure campaign against Iran in response to this type of abhorrent behavior from the Iranian regime ⁦⁩

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    23 hours ago

    Iran oil exports to plummet in November, then rebound as buyers use waivers

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    15 hours ago

    My report on the efforts of Russia's political elites to rein in the Runet since 2011-2012 is now out: . Many thanks to for the opportunity to analyze this increasingly important element of contemporary Russian politics in such detail

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    17 hours ago

    As Tumso Abdurakhmanov, one of the best-known Chechen dissidents and videobloggers abroad, faces unappealable 'secret' deportation from Poland back to Chechnya, where he would almost certainly be tortured and killed, a short thread on Chechens in Europe:

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  14. 17 hours ago

    The Shahyad (Shah's Memorial) Monument, inaugurated in 1971 to celebrate 25 centuries of monarchy in . The Shah deliberately modelled it on Sasanian architecture. It has been renamed Azadi (Freedom) Tower since the takeover of the Islamic Republic.

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    Nov 5

    Day spas for the Makhloufs? This is the reconstruction Russia wants us to pay for in Syria? Hell no.

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    Nov 3

    Josef Stalin (1913/14).

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    22 hours ago

    Facebook admits it didn't do enough to prevent its platform being used to fuel political division and bloodshed in Myanmar

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    23 hours ago

    An adolescent arrested in Moscow in possession of an IED

    ❗️В Москве арестовали восьмиклассника, у которого нашли взрывное устройство
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    24 hours ago

    More than 200 mass graves have been uncovered in Iraq, containing the remains of between 6-12,000 victims of Islamic State crimes, according to a new report by .

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    Nov 5

    "The Masonic world government wants to implement a coup," says "Orthodox oligarch" Malofeyev. Instead, Russia should make Putin tsar. The weird thing is this isn't fringe: The conference was chaired by former head of the Kremlin's think tank & attended by Putin's representative

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    Nov 5

    Some footage from the in London tonight.

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