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@arisroussinos

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. 5 hours ago

    The irony is they use the same FSA symbolism as their former rebel allies, now mutated into Turkish proxy militias who are their greatest single enemy

    I didn't take a photo, but the Manbij Military Council maintain large martyr posters from their long-pre-SDF 2013 FSA rebel incarnation: this is an underappreciated aesthetic (which also presents problems in a future deal with Damascus)
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  2. 5 hours ago

    I didn't take a photo, but the Manbij Military Council maintain large martyr posters from their long-pre-SDF 2013 FSA rebel incarnation: this is an underappreciated aesthetic (which also presents problems in a future deal with Damascus)

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  3. 6 hours ago

    The ideological fluidity of people willing to fight and die in this war compared to the rigidity of the people who argue about it on Twitter instead is quite interesting

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    The number of combatants who have fought for multiple sides/ factions in this civil war is interesting. It seems most indicative to self preservation more than anything else
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  4. 7 hours ago

    Worth emphasisng that the YPG's Arab Quwwat Hasakah force took Raqqa from the northern/northeastern axis and fought very hard, winning a great deal of respect in its first major battle as an autonomous unit (especially as an all-Arab YPG force)

    On the topic of the DEZ front: the most committed ground unit is the YPG's solely Arab Quwwat Hasakah force; most interesting within this is its large sub-units of SAA defectors from Idlib, Damascus and Aleppo, who self-identify as "thuwwar"
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  5. 8 hours ago

    We randomly bumped into 2 platoons worth of SAA defector units within YPG ranks, apparently more exist: these ought to have a special deal in the event of a reconciliation with Damascus

    On the topic of the DEZ front: the most committed ground unit is the YPG's solely Arab Quwwat Hasakah force; most interesting within this is its large sub-units of SAA defectors from Idlib, Damascus and Aleppo, who self-identify as "thuwwar"
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  6. 8 hours ago

    On the topic of the DEZ front: the most committed ground unit is the YPG's solely Arab Quwwat Hasakah force; most interesting within this is its large sub-units of SAA defectors from Idlib, Damascus and Aleppo, who self-identify as "thuwwar"

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  7. 8 hours ago

    This might seem absurd or frivolous but actually the rhythms and practises of everyday life have more meaning to civilians than the geostrategic speculations of us outside interlopers

    The truffles in question:
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    13 hours ago

    The last hours of ISIS vs the truffle hunters: somehow this seems deeply allegorical. This cries out to be painted in a 16th century Flemish style.

    Random aside: the desert between the Baghuz frontline and al-Omar is increasingly full of locals hunting for a particular type of highly-regarded and commercially valuable truffle, following recent rain
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    22 hours ago

    The verified nine IS attacks in in January alone, evidence of the group's widening reach.

    Facing defeat in Syria, hundreds of Islamic State group fighters have slipped across the border into Iraq, where the extremist group is trying to reassert itself and destabilize the country’s fragile security. and report …
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  10. 16 hours ago

    "As part of the plan, he added, those accused would be held in detention camps in the region" - a lot of incentives for both Euro governments and the SDC leading towards this scenario

    My latest: Syrian council welcomes Belgian support of international trials for foreign ISIS fighters
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    Those trucks went to evacuate Isis fighters and their families from their last cache but nobody showed up. So, truck drivers started to look for truffles. instead of
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  12. 17 hours ago

    The truffles in question:

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    17 hours ago

    Post-capitalism: Life within environmental limits

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  14. Feb 21

    On the topic of Western female ISIS members, the frame of "grooming", analogous to sexual exploitation, is currently being used, but I suspect the real analogue is the self-radicalisation of performative edgy behaviour displayed in other online-derived forms of fringe politics.

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    Feb 21

    Medieval port crane. In Polish it is called Żuraw Gdański

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    Feb 21

    Largest IS mass grave yet found outside Syria's Raqa via

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    Feb 21

    Huge portrait of in the mountains of , bombed by Turkish last year, has now been replaced by huge portrait of

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    Feb 21

    Awkward.

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    Feb 21

    a.k.a. "anchor force" to keep allies and partners in . Beer bottles chin-chinning in the Pentagon tonight. Via

    White House: US will keep 200 soldiers in as part of a peace keeping force.
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    Feb 21

    supports an international court to prosecute adult fighters with or -an nationality, that the -i government or the -backed -n Democratic Force () captured.

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