Phillip Smyth

@PhillipSmyth

Soref Fellow at . I focus on Shia armed groups/militias. Created & wrote The Shiite Jihad in Syria and Its Regional Effects

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    3 Dec 2014

    Check out on for my pieces on Shi'a militant groups: .

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  2. 10 hours ago

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    Just a tortoise eating watermelon for the first time 🍉🐢
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    10 hours ago

    Wait when did neo-Nazis start repping tawhid???

    National Action trial: Jury unable to reach verdicts
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  4. 13 hours ago

    Many of the same groups and networks that did those killings hold immense political and military power in Iraq and helped keep Bashar al-Assad in power in Syria.

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    Brian Hook: Based on declassified US military report that Iran is responsible for the death of at least 608 American service members. This accounts for 17% of all death of US persons in Iraq from 2003 to 2011.
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  5. 14 hours ago

    Brace yourself for all of the new Algeria experts to emerge...

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  6. 20 hours ago

    Does anyone actually like it when stores attach those stupid fake flowers to cacti?

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    Apr 2

    Shiite worshippers now outside the Imam Musa al-Kadhim mosque in , visiting his tomb to commemorate his death - reports

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    He was just a cook! YEAH! That's the ticket!

    And the Oscar goes to...
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    Mar 30

    The 18,000-year-old head of a woolly mammoth preserved in permafrost. It felt like elephant hide. It smelled like rotting meat in a freezer. It tasted like...well we'll have to use our imagination. Photos by . Put in an email to read for free

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    Middle East map sketched by TE Lawrence, 1918
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    Mar 30
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    By not eating Arby's, you let the terrorists win.

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  13. Mar 30

    American greatness in two photos.

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    Mar 29

    What else are we "NEVER" going to do again?

    With Dr. Les Grau, author of “The Bear Went Over The Mountain.” In the 90s, one publisher told him, "There's a couple problems. First, it's about , and we’re never going to go there. Second, it's about…
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  15. Mar 28

    Woo! Congrats! No doubt, it will be the best researched book on the subject.

    My forthcoming book cover! So pumped. Really happy how it turned out.
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    Mar 28

    On the points, 1928

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  17. Mar 28

    Check it out.

    In Wake of Sanctions, Hezbollah Appeals for Donations and Turns to Iraq ⁦⁩ ⁦⁩
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  18. Mar 28

    The Town 2: Quest for a Chocolate 'Crella'

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    Mar 27

    ISIS Fighter Dreading Smug Looks From Hometown Friends Who Told Him Caliphate Sounded Like Dumb Idea

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    Mar 27

    Paysage, 1914

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