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  1. Pinned Tweet
    16 Oct 2015

    The Middle East is like a puzzle, where all the pieces were made the wrong size and overlap on eachother and don't fit.

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  2. 30 minutes ago

    Israel’s IDF says it had to fire warning shots at “3 suspects, apparently Hezbollah activists, attempting to approach the area of the technological and engineering works” of , the three fled. Unclear precisely where this took place on border

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  3. 1 hour ago

    Ah yes APCs are also necessary to deal with protesters...

    1:09
    Footage of APCs rolling down the streets of Paris today.
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  4. 1 hour ago

    Right, because they need the army to deal with protesters? Isn't the army supposed to deal with....like...army things, such as terror, war, etc? Why do they need rifles for this?

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    Footage from this morning showing the French army deployed on the streets in Paris
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  5. Retweeted
    2 hours ago

    Is this democracy?! Police shooting a peaceful and defenseless protester in the stomach. Via

    16 replies 119 retweets 93 likes
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  6. 4 hours ago

    The US tried to condemn Hamas at the UN, but it couldn't muster the two-thirds votes needed, here's who voted and how and why,

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  7. 5 hours ago

    With harrowing photos from the Norwegian Refugee Council of displaced Iraqis the sheds light on the 1.8 million Iraqis still displaced , with quotes from and also reference to

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  8. 5 hours ago

    In a new piece looks at Iran and the "Rise of the Cyber Revolutionaries," understanding this issue is important because it follows on new reports about Iran urging the civic groups of Basij to "win the cyber war"

    MECRA is proud to announce a new and important piece by on 'Rise of the Cyber Revolutionaries: The Case of Iran', from the author of 'War in 140 Characters: How Social Media Is Reshaping Conflict in the Twenty‑First Century'; …
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  9. 6 hours ago

    Really inspiring weather this morning...inspiring me to get a blanket, coffee and my computer to do some writing or watch Godfather or both

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  10. 16 hours ago

    This is too late for many victims of these accounts, including accounts that sold people and encouraged extremism, we know for instance that used this to trade people; never forget the role of these kinds of social media apps

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  11. 17 hours ago

    Where did the "translation" get the word "Israel" in this translation, he's warning Hariri.

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  12. 17 hours ago

    For almost a year we've been hearing that ISIS lost 98% of its territory;

    The professionalization of fighters could turn into a reality, but maybe in a different and unexpected way
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  13. 17 hours ago

    Al-Chibayish is a very nice area

    Wow! Fashion show in the Mesopotamian Marshes (Al-Chibayish District).
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  14. 17 hours ago

    My thoughts on the US push for a resolution condemning Hamas and how it still couldn't get most countries in the Middle East or non-aligned movement, Arab League, etc to vote for it, or even abstain in some cases

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  15. 17 hours ago

    Danforth and Haley came from a political background, while Wiggins came from a career in media. Scali was initially a journalist as was Samantha Power, but all had more experience in one way or another in foreign affairs issues.

    Nice review of "P5" Ambassadors by What do most U.N. ambassadors have in common? Decades of experience.
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  16. 17 hours ago

    An article about her was published in the section as well this week,

    Palestinian court orders Palestinian mother of three, Suha Jbara, held in detention for an additional 15 days. She was arrested on Nov 3 and has been on hunger strike since Nov 22. Amnesty: She was beaten and threatened…
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  17. 19 hours ago

    Shameful behavior

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  18. 19 hours ago

    Ground Zero of the moment. Stay safe! | |
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  19. 19 hours ago

    Here's how the world voted on UN vote on Activities of Hamas, the maps show which countries supported the condemnation of Hamas (Green) and which refused (red) and abstained (yellow), a look at some regions shows how Europe, Pacific islands and most of the Americas voted for it

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  20. 19 hours ago

    Important

    Action needed not sympathy Nadia Murad: I survived Isis. Now I want to rebuild the Yazidi homeland via …
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  21. 21 hours ago

    Final results of the at

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