Sam Heller

@AbuJamajem

Senior Analyst, Non-State Armed Groups, . Looking at jihadism, one eye still on Syria. Jamajem means 🏴‍☠️. Contact:

Beirut, Lebanon
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Joined September 2011
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    Jan 15

    New: My interview with Iran's about Salafi-jihadist militancy, sectarianism, and discriminating counterterrorism policy.

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  2. 2 hours ago

    . on how women's role in Iraq's Islamic State insurgency is warping and challenging gender norms, as insurgents opportunistically revise their own ideas on gender roles and counterinsurgents struggle to adapt:

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  3. 2 hours ago

    .'s and : Absent new presidential orders (and despite mixed signals from administration officials), U.S. military still on track to exit Syria. European allies refuse to stay on the ground without U.S. contribution.

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    4 hours ago

    I recently conducted interviews with Syrians from eastern Ghouta. They too describe a pervading sense of fear and atomization of society due to suspicion that everyone is a possible informer.

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    13 hours ago

    Spot on. Aid that sits on the border while US officials taunt the regime is there for political showmanship, not humanitarian aims. If the sincere goal were to aid suffering Venezuelans, they'd be using discrete, apolitical means of trying to get it in.

    . regional director issues statement on the politicization of U.S. aid to Venezuela: "It is regrettable that aid has become a pawn in the political chess match between the governments of the United States and…
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    13 hours ago

    As some try to *convince* Trump to support a continued USAF presence (& perhaps some small of troop alongside EU forces tasked to “oversee & report”), his subordinates are trying to negotiate agreements w/ Turkey & SDF that're contingent on the NFZ POTUS hasn’t agreed to yet

    Replying to @aaronstein1
    No one, including Graham, is saying anything but that it's Trump's decision, on the troops, the air cover, all of it. Graham (and the others) are trying to get Shanahan to support them in arguing it to Trump. And yes, it's all bizarre, more and more these days.
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  7. 19 hours ago

    Seemingly the definitive word on Abu al-Yaqadhan al-Masri's relationship now with Tahrir al-Sham, from Abu al-Yaqadhan himself in interview with 's :

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    Feb 19

    Let's not call them aid workers. They're front line diplomats engaging in operations designed to support US military operations. To call them aid workers endangers actual aid workers and empowers folks like Assad and Maduro who claim humanitarian aid is a front for intervention.

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  9. Feb 19

    Why is the culpability and legal accountability of foreign ISIS members who came to do terrible things in Syria and Iraq being discussed only in terms of their countries of origin? Why is that the reference point, instead of the countries whose people they murdered and abused?

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    Feb 19

    “They told us the caliphate was ending as a territory, but they told us as well that it would live on in a way” - 17-year-old girl with 4 children

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    Feb 18
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    2/2 stabilisation force post-clearance, then what did the coalition troops die for when the SDF could have done the assault (which they eventually did).

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    Feb 18
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    1/2 And which country was going to volunteer to employ its ground troops to take casualties in assaulting Syrian towns that will eventually go back to Syrian government control ? And if the idea was for the SDF to then provide the interim...

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    Feb 18

    If goal is to turn the military & chavistas against & reassure both groups about post-Maduro future, not sure making this about the US, , fight against socialism & implicit threat of military intervention makes the most sense...

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    Feb 18

    Pro-HTS channel al-Dhahabi notes renovation of HTS billboard signs as refuting those who claimed that removal of the old ones was evidence of HTS' abandonment of jihad

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    Feb 17

    Country that literally set up an illegal island penal colony that HAS NEVER SUCCESSFULLY PROSECUTED 9-11 masterminds or any terrorist now urges other countries to do their duty and put their ISIS fighters on trial.

    Trump tells European countries to take back IS fighters
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    Feb 18

    On Idlib Peskov says that: - it is Turkey's responsibility to prevent attacks on the Hmeymim base, Aleppo and the Syrian forces - there will be an operation in Idlib, no deal with HTS is possible - no clarity whose operation it will be

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  17. Feb 18

    Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov's response at Munich Security Conference Saturday on Idlib, including suggestion that Russia and Turkey have agreed to "joint patrolling areas" inside Idlib de-escalation zone.

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    Feb 17

    Number of juveniles arrested for crimes in southern and eastern Turkey more than doubled in the last decade, and provinces with more refugees per capita saw higher increases. How much of the increases are attributable to Syrians is unknown.

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  19. Feb 17

    French officer's indictment of Coalition tactics in Hajin seems to double as critique of "by, with and through" model:

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  20. Feb 17

    Seems an open question whether Damascus’s anti-Islamism will allow it to eventually normalize with Erdogan’s Turkey – something that would otherwise probably make sense at some future point, whether based on interests or just geographic reality.

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    Feb 17

    So three C17s/approx 200 tons is what the US is dropping off? Those are barely symbolic quantities.

    More U.S. aid for touches down amid distribution uncertainty
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