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BBC Middle East Correspondent | commercial traveller | | “hindsight: the philosophy of fools”, Matt Goss, 2018 |

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    Jan 3

    ⚡️ “Don't Shoot The Drones”

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  2. 42 minutes ago

    Warm food good, cold food bad.

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    I've noticed the ISIS seemed to have changed the designs of their initial coins to those that are on the pic. More details of these ISIS coins below

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    11 hours ago

    “Why do you cover the Middle East?” 🤔

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  5. 8 hours ago

    Kurdish and Arab fighters have done most of the fighting in Syria against IS and are still paying with their blood. This was the funeral of Khalil Derik, 25, killed in Hajin.

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  6. 9 hours ago

    You can watch our TV report on tonight’s which is starting now on

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  7. 9 hours ago

    Hundreds of civilians have started to flee IS territory. One IS wife told us people were starving ... and that she believed her husband would come back for her.

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  8. 9 hours ago

    White Donkey, Hajin, Syria

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  9. 9 hours ago

    Hajin. The only other sign of life was a couple of donkeys.

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  10. 9 hours ago

    Here is a picture of a B1B bomber. Honest.

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  11. 9 hours ago

    The men got bogged down and didn’t get any further. We didn’t encounter a single IS fighter that night.

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  12. 9 hours ago

    As theSDF crept along avoiding IEDS, the unit behind us thought they do something in the fields. And responded thus:

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  13. 10 hours ago

    It was cold. And I ate a lot of aubergine. Which seems like some cruel joke as my feelings on that hateful vegetable are well known.

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  14. 10 hours ago

    And piles of patient notes mostly listing battlefield injuries

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  15. 10 hours ago

    There was blood and abandoned fighters’ clothing everywhere

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  16. 10 hours ago

    This was an IS hospital near the frontline in Soussa. It had been abandoned in haste.

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  17. 10 hours ago

    Recovered reading material....

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  18. 10 hours ago

    While has kittens I will pause for tea

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  19. 10 hours ago

    There are rumours kicking around that IS leader Abu Bakr al Baghdadi may have been caught. Most commanders I spoke to believed he was long gone, but empathises IS still have a command structure an leadership. Baghdadi’s son is belived killed but his brother has been in the area.

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  20. 10 hours ago

    The SDF have captured more foreign fighters, including a number or “British-African” males. It’s thought there are at least 20 British extremists are still at large. As I didn’t meet any, here’s a picture of my lunch.

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  21. 10 hours ago

    We saw British, American and french special forces there - and no sign of any of them leaving. (This is a very poorly shot glimpse of American artillery speeding off in the distance)

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