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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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    10 hours ago

    A short while ago, regime forces opened machine-gun fire on a Turkish patrol near Khan Sheikhoun, southern Idlib. 4 days ago regime shelling injured Turkish soldiers in Idlib. It does not appear that Turkey retaliated to either of these attacks.

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    May 7

    In Iraq, Badr Organization says US aircraft are supplying ISIS with medical supplies & food in the deserts of Anbar Province.

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    20 hours ago

    The arrests, torture, and killings of LGBT people in Chechnya in 2017 were not an isolated incident. speaks with men who were tortured with electric shocks, exposed to public shaming, and pressured to identify other gay men in a purge that took place just months ago.

    . documented a new wave of round-ups of presumed gays by police in - 4 men interviewed were detained and tortured for days in Dec 2018 - Feb 2019 at the Grozny Internal Affairs Department. Depraved…
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    17 hours ago

    Occasionally, the discussion of Syria's reconstruction becomes a parody of itself

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  6. 14 hours ago

    detected a US cyber-intrusion in 2016, stole 's tools, repurposed them, and has used them to steal intellectual property from at least five states (Belgium, Luxembourg, Vietnam, The Philippines, Hong Kong). "Competitor", we say, not "adversary".

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    May 6

    Responding to recent fighting between and , prominent Saudi intellectuals and journalists took to Twitter to side with Israel and attack and its policy

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  8. 15 hours ago

    In January, announced a five-year plan to "guide Islam to be compatible with socialism". At least one thing this entails is the destruction of mosques.

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  9. 15 hours ago

    Saatchi Gallery in west London, a "leading contemporary art gallery", has covered up two paintings that contained the Islamic testimony of faith alongside nude women after complaints from Muslim visitors that the art was blasphemous.

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  10. 15 hours ago

    April 1962: The 's official visit to the United States to meet with President John Kennedy. The Shah and JFK had a tense relationship, disagreeing over the Shah's role domestically and how to deal with the threat faced from the Soviet Union, among other things.

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  11. 16 hours ago

    brought the historically rivalled Diyanet + Milli Gorus under de facto official control, and in tandem with religious organizations, business figures, and Ikhwani-derived entities, has spread influence operations and spy networks throughout Europe.

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  12. 16 hours ago

    Not that the Gulf-Egypt conspiracy against Bashir makes him any less evil: "Dagalo would later tell local media that when he met with [Umar] al-Bashir in early April, the 75-year-old president cited an Islamic legal ruling that says a ruler can kill up to a third of his people."

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  13. 16 hours ago

    , , and helped coordinate the military coup in , getting rid of Bashir, who retained links to and . All the military officers purged since then were not b/c of the protesters but b/c these states saw them as Islamists.

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    20 hours ago

    Russian warplanes bomb Assad forces by mistake near "Kfarnabouda" north of Hama, resulting in the deaths and injuries (special sources to Syria Call)

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    19 hours ago

    Using satellite imagery from it is possible to see the complete desecration of the near-frontline town of Kafr Naboudah within the Idlib Pocket in Syria. There has been almost complete destruction of this village that held 10k civilians in Jan.

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    17 hours ago

    Assadist militias threatening people of Idlib there will be no green buses, instead they'll be buried

    عناصر من ميليشيات بعد تدمير بلدة كفرنبودة…
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    18 hours ago

    : around 4:PM town of is confirmed under Regime control. Clashes & bombardment continue in outskirts. Main Rebel defensive system (N. ) breached between Jebal Shashabo & observation Posts.

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    18 hours ago

    Eight years in the White House and he managed to never stumble on geopolitics...

    Saudi Arabia: - Violates human rights - Oppresses women - Murders journalists…
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  19. 18 hours ago

    Okay, so never actually suggested that might use chemical weapons in [see screen grab of full context] For some reason The invented that interpretation of his remarks.

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  20. 18 hours ago

    " said the attacks [by the pro-Asad forces in ] included the use of barrel bombs 'for the first time in seven months' and threatened a 'swift and appropriate response' if Russia or Turkey used illegal chemical weapons." "or Turkey"???

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    21 hours ago

    Some great reporting from 's Samy Magdy on Egyptian, Saudi, Emirati efforts to shape Sudan's post-Bashir transition

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