Sam Heller

@AbuJamajem

Senior Analyst, Non-State Armed Groups, . Looking at jihadism, one eye still on Syria. Jamajem means ☠️☠️☠️. Contact:

Beirut, Lebanon
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    Oct 22

    My latest, for : A Hayat Tahrir al-Sham video release shows how the group defines and makes sense of Syria’s war in terms of its own jihadist frame of reference – and highlights the challenge of extricating the group from its Syrian context:

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  2. 19 minutes ago

    • How Jeish Khaled fostered a local service economy for their own benefit, even as they extracted fees from residents; • Locals cycled through detention and interrogation; • Local youth apportioned between 4th Division, 5th Corps and Military Security.

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  3. 19 minutes ago

    . interviews resident of Yarmouk Basin's al-Shajarah, formerly under Jeish Khaled control, who describes: • Incremental restoration of public services, and new access to supplies after lifting of rebel siege;

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  4. 46 minutes ago

    Jumping off from reported findings of U.S. military investigation into Niger ambush, asks if fault may have been less technical than a matter of linguistic, cultural and political literacy – basically, if the U.S. military is in over its head:

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    19 hours ago

    In his write-up of the Druze hostage affair, says the U.S. garrison at Tanf has left the Syrian desert with an incoherent security architecture and ungoverned space open for Islamic State exploitation.

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  6. 1 hour ago

    2. Tahrir al-Sham commander: "The mujahideen have many targets surveilled and ready, and [they] will surprise the enemy at the appropriate time, and in the appropriate manner."

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  7. 1 hour ago

    1. Tahrir al-Sham says it responded to 'Zalaqiyyat massacre' of Jeish al-Izzah fighters and Syrian government's 'treachery' with raid on Syrian military operations room, killing twenty-two Syrian soldiers and seven Russians.

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  8. 2 hours ago

    On price spike, Watad media team interviews trader who attributes it to people stockpiling "for fear of road from Afrin and A'zaz areas to the liberated north being cut because of the Free Army massing in preparation for battle of Manbij." Prices down now, after new supplies.

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  9. 2 hours ago

    Watad Company denies allegations it's been hoarding fuel, or that it belongs to HTS. Watad is "a civilian company and the exclusive agent for imported (‘European’) gasoline and mazot; it is concerned with the movement at crossings and fuel prices only in general terms."

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  10. 3 hours ago

    Asked about Turkey's cross-border shelling of Syrian Democratic Forces areas, Zakharova's non-answer (and oblique references to Syria's "national integrity" and "consolidation") seem to implicitly give Turkey a pass.

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  11. 3 hours ago

    In 8 November briefing, Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova registers "provocations" by "Nusra and its allies," even as implementation of 17 September Russian-Turkish memorandum "ongoing."

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  12. 18 hours ago

    “But remember, guys, whatever you do – nobody move or smile.”

    This may be the most wonderful thing I've seen in a while: the Omani National Guard singing Justin Timberlake's "Can't Stop The Feeling" Yes, that's a woman in a hijab paying the trombone at 2:10 …
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  13. Nov 10

    . argues incoming UN Special Envoy Geir Pedersen should regain the initiative in Syria’s political process by, counterintuitively, freezing it – refusing to give the UN’s imprimatur to a dysfunctional process absent clear progress on other files.

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    Nov 9

    So-called "mufti of the Islamic State," Abu Ya'qub al-Maqdisi (real name Ahmad ibn Yusuf Simrin), reportedly still imprisoned by ISIS internal security (solitary confinement) since July 11. I wrote about his imprisonment last month for Sentinel

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  15. Nov 9

    On "terrorists" he alleges came via Turkey, Foreign Minister Moallem has said: "When you take a road from one city to another and you want to return, you take the same road." For more on local/transnational divides, and the politics of who is Syrian:

    Closing para gives a hint of Damascus's view of who is and isn't Syrian: "Several terrorist groups are spread across a number of areas in Idlib and northern and northwestern Hama countryside, among them 'the…
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  16. Nov 9

    "... foreign terrorist mercenaries who snuck over the Turkish border. They fall under the leadership of terror organization Jabhat al-Nusrah and attack army points, civilians and infrastructure, executing agendas of regimes and countries hostile to the Syrian state and its sons."

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  17. Nov 9

    Closing para gives a hint of Damascus's view of who is and isn't Syrian: "Several terrorist groups are spread across a number of areas in Idlib and northern and northwestern Hama countryside, among them 'the Turkistan [Islamic] Party,' 'Kataib al-Izzah,' and others that include..

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  18. Nov 9

    SANA's version of killing of number of Jeish al-Izzah fighters Thursday, which SANA says was a Syrian military ambush in response to attempted attack by Jeish al-Izzah. (Jeish al-Izzah has said its fighters were killed "repelling an attempted advance.")

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  19. Nov 8

    2. ... as the group's fighters launch a raid on Syrian military positions around Albukamal on the river's Shamiyyah bank from their haven on the opposite Jazeerah bank.

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  20. Nov 8

    1. Islamic State video from "al-Barakah" region seems to show the group availing itself, again, of its enemies' contradictions and of artificial discontinuities and borders it doesn't heed or respect: this time the deconfliction line along the Euphrates...

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    Nov 8

    Such kind of thinking starts to dominate in . Hope there will be breakthrough in without such kind of means. Depends on if is able to deliver.

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