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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. 10 minutes ago

    In eastern , tensions are increasing between our partner force () and the local population, tells me, b/c of the exclusion of Arabs from power, abuses, and use of Arab SDF to fight while Kurdish PKK commanders sit it out.

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  3. 53 minutes ago

    NEW: The US-backed / areas in are now visibly fraying. Shifting to a more balanced policy between the PKK and along the path already started in Manbij might be a route to stability. With comments from and .

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    1 hour ago

    A Turkey-PKK settlement offers a chance for stability in Turkey and Syria | - Ahval |

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  5. 2 hours ago

    An interesting snapshot of the way the Islamist movement in manipulated the Western press even before it seized power, indeed as part of the process by which they undermined the Shah in order to seize power.

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    14 hours ago

    Hamas confirm senior commander killed in Israeli strike/raid in southern Gaza. This comes after Israel allows $15 million dollars - cash in suitcases - from Qatar into strip to ease tensions

    Israeli aircraft strike south Gaza. Several dead. Palestinians report senior Hamas' military wing commander targeted by SOF
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    3 hours ago

    Lots of diplomacy around Khashoggi killing & Yemen over past 24hrs: State Department says Pompeo spoke with MBS on phone last night, British foreign secretary Jeremy Hunt in Riyadh today after visit from Britain's top foreign policy civil servant.

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    4 hours ago

    Officer killed last night was a lieutenant colonel. For security reasons, he can't be identified by his full name, only by the first Hebrew letter of his first name, "Mem"

    IDF confirms special forces officer killed, another injured in Gaza raid
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    8 hours ago

    The IS attacker in Melbourne was friends with Khaled Sharrouf on Facebook and the brother of the man accused of planning an attack in Federation Square on New Years Eve 2017. Perhaps not such a lone wolf after all.

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    Jun 6

    After the defeat of Germany in late 1918, the Allies continued a war effort in the East to try to tip the balance against the nascent Bolshevik regime. Unfortunately, the Allied intervention was neither serious nor sustained, and was ended by the autumn of 1919.

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    Nov 9

    100 years ago in July, the Russian Imperial family were massacred by the Bolsheviks. Can't shift this description from Simon Sebag Montefiore's book of what the Communists did to the 13-year-old Tsarevich, little Alexay.

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  12. 13 hours ago

    In March 2017, a group of businessmen, some tied to 's security establishment, met about , and the Crown Prince asked about assassinating Qassem Sulaymani and other leading Iranian terrorists. The businessmen turned it down flat.

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  13. 13 hours ago

    For , it seems his life has been but a preparation for the writing of a Churchill biography and at last the hour has arrived, says

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  14. 13 hours ago

    Lech Walesa [pic 1980] led the workers against the Communist tyranny imposed on . Asked later, he said: "I realized … the [regime] would pretty much be able to do anything to me, and so I completely stopped being afraid. The only thing I was full of was the fear of God."

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    16 hours ago

    Syrian Democratic Forces announce the renewal of offensive operations towards in east where terrorists are now trapped and confronting 24/7 airstrikes from the United States and our air partners.

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    15 hours ago

    Young Communist activists advocating for workers' rights in China are being rounded up and detained by authorities, their whereabouts unknown

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    18 hours ago

    Iraqi CTS raid on ISIS leaders directing VBIED attacks.

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    Nov 11

    Abdulsalem Jaber, the Minister of Information in the Houthi-aligned government in Sanaa, has officially announced his defection in a press conference this morning.

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    16 hours ago

    Houthis and Hezbollah supporters protesting in front of the Saudi Consulate in and chant anti-USA&Israel slogans

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    İstanbul'daki Suudi Arabistan konsolosluğu önündeki protestoda İran tarafından desteklenen Yemen'deki Husilerin lideri (Ensarullah Hareketi) Abdulmelik Husi ve Lübnan Hizbullah'ının posterleri açılmış.
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    Nov 10

    The Sultan Murad Brigade, a Turkish-backed Free Syrian Army faction, arrested media activist Bilal Srewel for taking photos in Efrin. Bilal is a survivor of the siege of Ghouta, during which he was severely injured by Assad regime shelling.

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    15 hours ago

    The General Syrian Conference of the -backed Syrian Salvation Government has come to a compromise resolution regarding the flying of the Syrian revolution flag. The flag to be flown will retain the triband colors, but the red stars have been replaced by red-inked Shahada.

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