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Researcher focused on Syria and terrorism | History digressions, particularly about the Soviet Union | Likes are bookmarks. RTs = ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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    18 Dec 2018

    The waged an undeclared war against through terrorists and rejectionist states. Since the end of the Cold War, Russia has retained alliances with such actors, notably , and sees Israel as an extension of America, the "Main Adversary".

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    3 hours ago

    Apr 9th 1919: An advance guard of British officers has assembled in London to embark for Russia and relieve Allied troops at Archangel. Recruiting has just begun for more volunteers to serve in North Russia.

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    22 hours ago

    How Netanyahu saved Assad, helped Russia and gave Iran the run of Syria

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    4 hours ago

    Joint press conference with and . Topics covered include, inter alia, bilateral trade, people-to-people ties, Akkuyu & Turkish Stream, Syria, and S-400

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  5. 4 hours ago

    Syrian National Army, the -style umbrella formation gathered under Turkish tutelage, practicing an aerial landing for if moves against the / east of the Euphrates.

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    متداول | وحدات من الجيش الوطني السوري تهني تدريبات "إنزال جوي" استعداداً لمعركة شرق الفرات
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    4 hours ago

    BREAKING: Voting begins in Israeli elections as country decides whether Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu remains in power.

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    6 hours ago

    How Netanyahu saved Assad, helped Russia and gave Iran the run of Syria

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    16 hours ago

    As the West wrestles with questions over the future of its ISIS fighters and their families, meets a woman in Dagestan who is helping to bring Russians home:

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    12 hours ago

    The craziest battle you never heard of took place in 1897 near the Khyber Pass between India and Afghanistan. 21 Sikh soldiers, fighting for the British, held a small fortress for six hours against 10,000 Afghans, in what is now remembered as the Battle of Saragarhi. 1/

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    5 hours ago

    The 3 weeks of air campaign had finally halted. The moment it struck that Saddam, the invincible dictator, was no longer in power was when TV showed the man cursing him in broad daylight, smacking his portrait with a slipper. He was no longer afraid. Surreal.

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    13 hours ago

    So the Secret Service stuck Zhang's thumbdrive into their computer.

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    8 hours ago

    This is the “If only Stalin knew!” form of coverup. All MbS’s men but not the boss himself.

    BREAKING: US publicly Designates 16 Individuals In Jamal murder. Saud Al Qahtani (Fmr MBS advisor), Mutreb (Fmr…
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    7 hours ago

    Sudan, Khartoum, tonight. Sea of people chanting "The people demand the fall of the regime"

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    Tonight - day three of Sudan's mass sit-in...
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  14. 6 hours ago

    Six women were stalked, one driven to suicide, and there's no evidence it was about money. Indeed, there's no evidence of *any* motive beyond the thrill of manipulation. Incredible.

    This is an extraordinary story about deception... Catching a Catfish ⁦⁩
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  15. 7 hours ago

    This is fascinating on the Nazi occult weirdness that led into the early Cold War, where both sides were determined not to lose the supernatural arms race

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    13 hours ago

    BREAKING via CENTCOM: Three U.S. service members and one contractor were killed, and three U.S. service members were wounded by an improvised explosive device today

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    17 hours ago

    Netanyahu's disastrous Syria policy guaranteed Iran's entrenchment in Syria: Opinion

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    17 hours ago

    Today took the historic step of designating the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (), incl. Qods Force, as a Foreign Terrorist Organization (). First time U.S. has ever designated part of a government as an FTO. Read more .

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    14 hours ago

    Houthis blocked cholera vaccinations from summer of 2017 until May 2018 during which outbreak produced over 1 million cholera cases-the worst cholera epidemic recorded in modern times, & a calamity medical researchers say may have been avoided if vaccines had been deployed sooner

    While cholera raged in Yemen, rebels blocked vaccines: investigates how corruption fueled world’s worst outbreak.
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    16 hours ago

    *Laughs in the Russian equivalent of de-baathification*

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    ‘Iraq’s history has been distorted, my family discredited’ – Saddam’s granddaughter to RT
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    14 hours ago

    On the eve of ’s elections, “another”, less upbeat, reading of Bibi ’s record. A good piece by ⁦⁩ 👇🏼

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