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Senior Fellow & Director of CVE & CT at . Author of . Following , armed groups, , & T/RT≠ endorsement.

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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. 45 seconds ago

    This makes it look official - is resisting pressure from DOD-NSC-State. I cannot stress enough how naive this decision will prove to be. Everything the U.S. has fought for in will have been wasted. We'll be back in a few years, at most.

    We have defeated ISIS in Syria, my only reason for being there during the Trump Presidency.
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  3. 34 minutes ago

    : Worse still, this’ll be music to the ears of , , & . isn’t only doing what did in leaving prematurely, he’s doing it in an environment in which ’s adversaries will benefit: jihadis, and . Unbelievable hubris.

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  4. 37 minutes ago

    : told ’s of his intentions by phone on Friday last week. Coming in the context of Turkish threats to intervene in NE , the message to the / couldn’t be any worse. The US will abandon “the Kurds” again, if gets his way here.

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  5. 39 minutes ago

    There is a possibility of an announcement today. That’s if the collective U.S. government is unable to push back against - as it did earlier in the year after his comments in . More than anything, this is an extraordinary insult to the recent efforts of Amb. Jeffrey.

    BREAKING - The U.S. is preparing a possible withdrawal from , per new report in . …
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  6. 42 minutes ago

    BREAKING - The U.S. is preparing a possible withdrawal from , per new report in . Allies (inc. ) have been informed. The call came direct from . BUT, there’s an ongoing debate internally. , DOD & State furious.

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  7. Retweeted
    18 hours ago

    Imagine looking at people pulling people out of the rubble, handing UXO, and treating chemical weapons victims (and in the process being poisoned themselves), then looking at the perpetrators of those attacks and saying “man, those rescuers are the real problem here.”

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  8. Retweeted
    Dec 14

    Exclusive from for : A recently obtained secret letter sheds light on ISIS’s efforts to persuade al-Qaeda affiliate AQIM to abandon its allegiance to Ayman al-Zawahri and join Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi’s ranks.

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    Dec 17

    2018 year in review: Conflicts, Khashoggi, and “maximum pressure” featuring , , , , , , , , , , and Nathan Stock

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  10. 18 hours ago

    IMPORTANT - the 100+ Peshmerga that had arrived into NE on Sunday have been forced back to 's . The / rejected their presence in .

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    Convoy of Roj Peshmerge left Dêrik and returned to after being denied entry into western by authorities. There’s no Peshmerge in Rojava currently.
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  11. 19 hours ago

    The visit of 's al-Bashir to could be an attempt to "catalyze a race for who can engage quickest & most effectively" with , pitching the - bloc against -UAE one. My comments to ' , here:

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  12. 21 hours ago

    Through 2018, 22 accusations were made accusing the "White Helmets" of using/transporting chemical weapons. All were false. - 11/22 came from -linked sources (, etc.) - 8/22 came from 's "Reconciliation Center"

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  13. 21 hours ago

    has directed a campaign of disinformation aimed at turning 's volunteer into "a hunted prey." Worse still, an extraordinary number of people have fallen victim to this -run ploy -- fueling fabrications yet further.

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    Dec 17

    "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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    Dec 17

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

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    Dec 18

    Yup. sums it up.

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  17. 23 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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  18. 23 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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  19. 23 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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  20. 23 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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  21. 23 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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