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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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    9 hours ago

    New fears that Notre Dame cathedral may collapse as Paris mourns historic landmark

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    BREAKING: President Trump vetoes resolution calling on U.S. to withdraw support from Saudi-led war in Yemen.

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    20 hours ago

    Bahraini prosecution alleged 'Bahraini Hezbollah" cell trained by Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guards in Lebanon, Iran and Iraq, and received "technical, logistic and financial support" from IRGC

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    12 hours ago

    Iran's FM has offered to send troops from the Revolutionary Guard to support its South American ally where President Maduro faces anti-government unrest //

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    Apr 15

    The threat of a hard British exit looms large over a country that has a big stake in the process but no official say: Turkey. UK is Turkey’s second largest export market with $3.7 billion trade surplus

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    21 hours ago

    Instagram closes account of Qasem Soleimani of Iranian Revolutionary Guards. He had 888K followers. The action happened after US placed Revolutionary Guards on terror list.

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    Apr 15

    Few things better illustrate our current brand of woke nihilism than people cheering on the burning of the Notre Dame because something something colonialism

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    16 hours ago

    Omran center published a special report entitled " within the Regime Army.. 2017/18 strikes that targeted Iran in ". Authors: / Suhail AlGhazi

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    14 hours ago

    HTS has began exporting Oil and Fuel from Idlib towards Regime Areas

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    15 hours ago

    : witnessed today the 1st (documented) insurgency action by Rebels. Newly formed group "Saraya Qasioun" announced targeting a Regime Security officer in w/ an IED. Reports he's seriously wounded.

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    15 hours ago

    Iranian men joining their sisters against morality police & extremists who harass women opposing compulsory hijab. This week IRI arrested 2 activist but, they cannot silence millions of strong women like the one in video.

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    15 hours ago

    : Popular Resistance releaased the video showing the IED destroying a vehicle reportedly carrying pro-Assad troops in NW. countryside (12th April's attack).

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  14. 14 hours ago

    From a May 1973 article in 'The Bulletin', a news magazine in , showing that at least some people got it at the time. The (Jugoslav secret police) had badly compromised most Croat nationalist groups and nearly all of the most extreme ones were "under control".

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    17 hours ago

    Iran's oil exports hit new 2019 low so far in April - sources

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    17 hours ago

    Ankara expects Washington to extend Turkish waiver on Iran sanctions

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  17. 19 hours ago

    The most generous explanation of what's being said about here still reflects really, really badly on the guy saying it. And if one is so unkind as to read it as written, it's pretty horrific.

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  18. 19 hours ago

    Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham () insists it is a localist jihadi franchise and has publicly broken with Al-Qaeda. But it has been connected with terrorism plots in America (2015), Russia (2016-17), and India (late 2017). Looking at what this means for .

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  19. 21 hours ago

    Intelligence services frequently infiltrate terrorist groups and then manipulate or actually direct them into actions that serve their state interests. Here's a classic case from 1979, with Jugoslavija's working against a Croat group in |

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    Apr 16

    As Damascus expands its control, wartime smuggling networks are adapting rather than abating--not least because so many people will pay to be smuggled out of regime territory. Great from

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  21. 21 hours ago

    Backgrounder on Nayef Hawatma's Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine (), a complicated component of the , which was very close to the Soviet Union and trained various terrorist movements, inc and , on 's behalf.

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