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    Aug 3

    NEW: “The Urgency of : The Impending Regime Offensive & the Delicate Balancing Act in ’s Northwest” My latest, in-depth look at , for :

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  2. 2 hours ago

    Meanwhile, a joint -- statement says the Constitutional Committee says it will meet in early-2019. So a clear - disagreement here. Credit to Staffan for sticking to his positions, but this weakens the UN (& "Geneva") yet further.

    BREAKING: [Outgoing] UN Envoy De Mistura says the Constitutional Committee has not [yet] been formed, after meetings in .…
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  3. 2 hours ago

    1,000s of children have been abandoned & 100s are in prison w/o charge. - "We're holding children as young as 12 in cells with hard-core jihadi fighters," one intel official said. - "The camps are a time bomb... this will affect the whole world," another official warned.

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  4. 2 hours ago

    BREAKING: [Outgoing] UN Envoy De Mistura says the Constitutional Committee has not [yet] been formed, after meetings in . "There is still an extra mile to go in this marathon effort," he said.

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  5. 2 hours ago

    As IDPs slowly return home, those left in camps are those more clearly linked to . visited "Airstrip Camp" near (home to 40,000+ IDPs) in Aug 2018, which an INGO official described as a "concentration camp" run by "militias."

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  6. 2 hours ago

    In the days & months after 's liberation from rule, 's security forces 'mirrored' the jihadi group's ultra-brutal behaviors. - Field executions, burnings to death, mass beheadings (incl. of minors), socialized public torture & filmed stabbings in the face, etc.

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  7. 2 hours ago

    Between Oct-Dec 2017, West Civil Defense personnel recorded 10,000 civilian deaths, most buried under rubble caused by U.S-led airstrikes. Who knows how many more since... When presented with this, an gave an extraordinarily galling response, here:

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  8. 2 hours ago

    The fight for was inordinately destructive, particularly in the Old City, where 10 million tons of rubble remain today. The U.S. relaxed air strike requirements in the Old City. = In March 2017, the U.S. dropped a 500lb bomb to kill 2 snipers... 105 civilians died.

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  9. 2 hours ago

    A senior intel official told of systematic criminality by security forces, battlefield executions, murders in detention centers & coverups by the state. - "We’re deleting 1,000s of families from society. This is not just revenge on . This is revenge on Sunnis.”

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  10. 3 hours ago

    The opening scenes of 's piece are a hard hitting insight into 's justice system & its self-defeating process of "judging" suspects. Judges & lawyers chat & exchange jokes as suspects (most badly tortured) have seconds to speak. Every session lasts 3-8 mins.

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  11. 3 hours ago

    This is probably the most important article you could read on the war against & 's future in 2018 -- clue: it's not good. Incredibly important work by for . Read every word of this.

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  12. 3 hours ago

    Fascinating little window into the efforts of x2 Chechen jihadis to mediate an imminent - war in in Nov 2013, by The below para is a particularly insightful look at the ideological flimsiness of some of 's extremists:

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  13. 3 hours ago

    And now, has gone & translated the *whole* bio -- Aymenn says the U.S. invasion of in 2003 was the key trigger. - “The notion that was the real key figure behind the evolution of [] rather than is highly tenuous”

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  14. 3 hours ago

    . has also commented within this debate, claiming that the new bio suggests that had only "limited [&] early interactions" with Anbari & that the timeline within doesn't align with the claim that 's nature was bred by .

    1. Having read this biography of Abu Ali al-Anbari (available in PDF via 's piece), I have to agree with – it doesn't support 's revisionist contentions about Zarqawi's centrality to the Islamic State in his latest (). …
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  15. 3 hours ago

    .'s theory (above - based on a newly revealed biography) that 's & his turn to ultra-sectarianism in was heavily influenced by Abu Ali al-Anbari has opened a big debate. - says the bio does not bear that claim out:

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  16. 20 hours ago

    "There’s a hierarchy for booty... TVs are for officers, the fridges & washing machines are for the middle ranks & the wood & wiring pulled out of people’s abandoned homes is for the lower ranks. It’s disgusting" - on "The Looting of "

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    Dec 13

    Worth mentioning that 's granular research on Syria's Republican Guard is entirely based on open source information — Facebook profiles and pages, to be more specifically. Looking forward to reading it.

    Thrilled to publish 's latest work for - a comprehensive profile of 's Republican Guard.…
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    Dec 14

    New: A secret letter recently obtained through an inside source sheds light on ISIS’s efforts to persuade an al-Qaeda affiliate to jump ship, abandon its allegiance to Ayman al-Zawahri, and join Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi’s ranks

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  19. 21 hours ago

    "The localization of jihad" - My [brief] 2018 in Review thoughts on what the last 12 months has meant for the evolution of the jihadist threat, for the :

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  20. 21 hours ago

    "A Decisive Year in " - My [brief] 2018 in Review thoughts on what the last 12 months meant for , for the .

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  21. 21 hours ago

    Looking back at this & it seems increasingly likely to me that the arrival of 100 Peshmerga into territories in NE *is* one piece of a process of U.S.- negotiations, aimed at preventing a 3rd Turkish intervention. A NE Pesh role has been a long demand.

    After being asked about tensions with vis-a-vis the in the northeast, Amb. Jeffrey says the deployment overnight of 100 Peshmerga to NE was “done with our understanding and as one of several…
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