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Journalist, aspiring goatherd. Rory Peck Award winning cameraman, author of REBELS (Penguin Random House, 2014), theoretically writing a Very Serious Book.

Joined August 2011
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  1. 49 minutes ago

    Ultimately, while IS’s imminent defeat as a standing army seems inevitable, the strong risk remains of an insurgency campaign utilising both significant local support for the group and the favourable terrain/END

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  2. 51 minutes ago

    This dense bocage of pomegranate orchards presents significant challenges to SDF forces pushing forward from farmhouse to farmhouse

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  3. 56 minutes ago

    Surrounded, under constant artillery and air bombardment, IS are still putting up a determined and well-executed defence

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  4. 59 minutes ago

    However IS are still very capable of mounting sudden counterattacks on isolated positions combining *extremely* accurate mortar and rocket fire with fast-moving assault units going in for the kill using the local pomegranate orchards and irrigation channels for cover

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  5. 1 hour ago

    YPG heavy weapons units provide mobile fire support for SDF units under IS counterattack

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  6. 1 hour ago

    The SDF advance is supported by the heaviest Coalition air presence I’ve yet seen, usually 3 or 4 jets circling overhead at any one time

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  7. 1 hour ago

    Infantry forces are predominantly Arabs, either Deiri locals in the Deir Ezzor Military Council or from Hasakah units of the YPG

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  8. 1 hour ago

    SDF forces crossed a bridge into the IS-held pocket of al-Marashidah this morning, one of the two tiny areas they still control in Deir Ezzor governorate (footage from this morning)

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  9. 1 hour ago

    I made a short film about the Hungarian government’s generous welfare and tax policies designed to encourage millennials to settle down and have children

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    Despite mass demonstrations in Hungary's capital against the government’s controversial “slave law”, Prime Minister Viktor Orban is likely to keep power.…
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    Jan 18

    Nomadic farmers in the Sahel are combining traditional knowledge with technologies like mobile phones📱 & satellites📡 to tackle climate challenges threatening their way of life. via

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    Jan 17

    The message of the watch with English subs if necessary.

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    Jan 19

    Having read the accusation in the current trial of , I find it somewhat odd how little attention it pays to the most essential context. Being the fact that the Brussels was the first aggression on European soil (1/6)

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    Jan 19

    YPG Commander-in-chief Sipan Hamo: 1. A real safe-zone should be inside Turkey to protect Kurds from Erdogan regime 2. Political authorities’ [of Rojava] decision is binding for us. As the military force, we will continue to prepare for the worst scenario.

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    Jan 18

    |’ foreign minister says he’s optimistic that the will soon start lifting a decades-old arms embargo because acknowledges the island nation’s contribution to bolstering stability and security in the east .

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    Jan 19

    Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham and National Front for Liberation reportedly sign new agreement for return of Ahrar al-Sham fighters to the Sahl al-Ghab frontline points as part of a central ops room

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    Jan 19

    JUST IN: Northern Ireland police are investigating a ‘suspected car bomb’ explosion in Derry

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    Jan 19

    In Serbia, 105 members of the oldest faculty at the University of Belgrade sign a letter to support anti-govt protests: we see ample signs of dictatorship and we see an economy stuck at the very bottom of the European economic growth league

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  18. Jan 19

    People write articles about Nutella or his dadbod or whatever but the most striking part of Salvini’s social media output is the frequent long vids of him walking into crowds and soaking up their adoration (often in unlikely places, as below)

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    Afragola (Napoli) accoglie così il Capitano, saranno senz’altro hacker di Putin! 😂
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  19. Jan 19

    I genuinely can’t tell which are parody accounts and which aren’t

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    Jan 19

    .'s visit appears to have advanced major changes to the original understanding between President Donald Trump and Turkey's Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

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