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Contributing writer, . NYT Bestselling Author . Senior Fellow, . Email: hhassan@timep.org

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    Sep 6

    NEW paper, for : "Rural insurgency is not an afterthought for ISIS and other jihadis who are currently on the defensive. Rather, it is a strategy that they have long thought about and planned for."

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  2. 22 minutes ago

    'Working with Assad to be considered if elected fairly'

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  3. 26 minutes ago

    Saudis from Medina gather to remember “the Ottoman butcher” Fahreddin Pasha and Safarbarlik

    تاريخ آل سعود
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  4. 53 minutes ago

    Shocking that al-Qaeda & the Islamic State are fighting it out beyond Syria & Iraq, rather than merging & getting closer (no, not shocking). ISIS claims 14 al-Qaeda fighters were killed in an attack in Somalia.

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    10 hours ago

    Sources say Russia expects the agreement on the Syrian Constitutional Committee to be signed on December 18, Tuesday. The Russian Foreign Ministry rescheduled their annual Dec 18 reception for journos to a day earlier since Lavrov has to be in Geneva on Tuesday for the signing

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  6. 1 hour ago

    Turkish-backed rebels supposedly getting ready for an offensive in US-protected areas in NE Syria. (Won’t happen) A European official recently joked to a Turkish friend if the upcoming election (March) will see another Turkish offensive, as with recent elections.

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  7. 2 hours ago

    More unconfirmed news, similarly framed: A small contingent of Kurdish “Roj Pesh” is to be dispatched from Iraqi Kurdistan to norther Syria along the Syrian-Turkish borders, with US consent.

    أكد مصدر كردي رفيع بأن قوة صغيرة من بيشمركة روج في طريقها إلى مدينة الرميلان قادمة من كردستان العراق، وذلك بدعوة من القوات الأمريكية العاملة في سوريا، وذلك للتباحث في شأن التهديدات…
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    2 hours ago

    From the , some GULEN news:

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  9. 3 hours ago

    Turkish foreign minister: “If Assad wins in a democratic election, we will consider working with him.”

    وزير الخارجية التركي مولود جاويش أوغلو من الدوحة: "إذا فاز الأسد في انتخابات ديمقراطية سنفكر في العمل معه.
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  10. 16 hours ago

    Unconfirmed reports that Ahmed Jarba is having discussions with Turkey to form a tribal army in northeastern Syria to guard the Syrian-Turkish borders without being part of the US-backed SDF. One of the ideas advanced to address the policy fuckups of the Obama administration.

    : انباء شبه مؤكدة عن وصول الجربا إلى أنقرة للمرة الثانية خلال 3…
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  11. 18 hours ago

    UAE designates 2019 as “the Year of Tolerance”

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  12. Dec 14

    The monarchs in our region see an opportunity in Trump’s presidency to change the face of the region: “Son of deposed shah urges US to back Iran regime change” by via

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  13. Dec 14

    Thanks — an idea I’m developing, based on patterns in recent years, is how it’ll be another year or two for ISIS’s real post-caliphate potential to play out. It’s currently still on the run & trying to regroup, despite dangerous signs of recovery in several areas.

    I think is spot-on that ISIS will return to their lessons learned playbook from 2009 and there is evidence to support his sense that ISIS prepped for transition to attrition insurgency as early as spring 2016. The spot they have picked is Kirkuk/southern Nineveh.
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  14. Dec 14

    بقلم "عبدالله الغضوي"

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  15. Dec 14

    The Gods That Will Fail beautiful essay, by

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  16. Dec 14

    ‘As the number of scandals surrounding the White House grows, so does, it seems, the president’s free time ... on Thursday, the president enjoyed nine & a half hours of “executive time”— to phone outside advisers, tweet, and watch cable news.’

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    Dec 14

    Iraq's half formed government is torn between two allies (US and Iran) and breaking all the rules (as tenuous alliances fail and ministers remain unchosen). Latest from

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  18. Dec 14

    That’s why the moniker “Salafi-Jihadism” is misleading, as it’s not “Salafi + Jihadism = Salafi-Jihadism”. The Salafism part is the main issue, but jihadis like it because it confers traditionalist legitimacy to their new movement. The bigger component of it (Qutbism) is absent!

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  19. Dec 14

    For U.S. troops in Syria, an indefinite stay and increasing risks of combat and insurgency - ⁦⁩

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  20. Dec 14

    In fact, I noticed several important discrepancies between the literature on Salafi-Jihadism in western scholarship versus in Arabic & among jihadis. The starting point to dissect this movement through the prism of Haraki Islam, then explain how different currents branched out.

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  21. Dec 14

    You see, that’s a fundamental flaw in the common understanding of Salafi-Jihadism: Salafi-Jihadism doesn’t mean one has to be *Salafi* and Jihadi. It’s a school of thought that began to form in the 1970s, influenced by various strands. Adherents of SJ aren’t necessarily *Salafi*

    It fits better with individuals. Many of al-Qaida's members are not salafis, for instance, which makes it problematic to say the group is Jihadi-Salafi. One can do it for pragmatic reasons, of course, but one has to be careful with the label.
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