Sam Heller

@AbuJamajem

Senior Analyst, Non-State Armed Groups, . Looking at jihadism, one eye still on Syria. Jamajem means 🏴‍☠️. Contact:

Beirut, Lebanon
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    Mar 14

    New report on Idlib's armed factions and a stabilizing alternative to a military solution for Syria's rebel-held northwest – a "solution" that would prove a humanitarian disaster and risk scattering Idlib militants globally:

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    3 hours ago

    The fact that ISIS claimed responsibility for this blast despite the fact that it was controlled & caused zero casualties shows you how desperate they are for attention & PR.

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    3 hours ago

    Reuters: Sadr City blast on Thursday night resulted from the dismantling of an explosive device found on the side of the road in a market and resulted in no casualties or injuries.

    رويترز: انفجار مدينة الصدر نتج عن تفكيك عبوة ناسفة وجدت على جانب الطريق في أحد الأسواق ولم يسفر عن سقوط ضحايا أو إصابات
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  4. 3 hours ago

    Local, speaking from Sadr City's Jamilah: "چذب السالفة، عمي. هاي من قلب المكان الي قالوا عليه ع أساس انفجار. كل شي ماكو (It's lies, brother. This is from the center of where there was supposedly an explosion. There's nothing.)" (thanks to )

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    So claimed a large score of casualties during a bombing in Alsadir city earlier tonight, I received a video from the actual place contradicting them and proving there were no casualties.
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  5. 5 hours ago

    Security source tells al-Sumariyah that security forces surrounded yesterday’s Sadr City bomber, who triggered his suicide belt: Islamic State has claimed the Baghdad bombing, portrayed it as a deliberate “martyrdom” operation.

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    18 hours ago

    خريطة توضح توزع مناطق السيطرة بين قوى الصراع السوري في ريف جماة الشمالي 09-05-2019 الرابط :

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    21 hours ago

    THREAD Jihad in Bosnia 1) I traveled to the Islamic core of where in 1992-1995 hundreds of FFs joined El Mudžahid unit and fought along with Bosniaks, the first jihadist military presence in Europe. I also investigated the current Salafist scene

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    20 hours ago

    Agree 100%. Children should not be described as "bombs," even when they participate in violence, these are *humans* who deserve to be treated as such. Also, child association w/ armed groups is a spectrum not a binary-more on this in 's study

    This article by ⁦⁦⁦⁩ first ran under a different title. Editors prob changed it to capitalize on EU CT coordinator Gilles de Kerchove’s use of the phrase. But very damaging to associate term w/the kids, bad call ⁦⁦⁩
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  9. 20 hours ago

    3. Same soldier poses on a yellow treks (front loader) in the center of Hama's Qal'at al-Madiq, mocks opposition reports he was killed yesterday:

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  10. 20 hours ago

    2. "... front loaders. That's what Professor Hussein Murtada told you, and I'm telling it to you today: Front loaders – burial, here. Or, actually, you won't even be buried on this land. This land is pure, you filth. You enemies of God, and Islam, and religion, and humanity."

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  11. 20 hours ago

    1. Syrian soldier, speaking from Hama's Kafranboudeh yesterday: "We won't stop here. We won't stop here. There aren't any more green buses. There are yellow front loaders (triksat), and there's the military boot. You're facing two options: Either being stomped, or the yellow...

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    من كفرنبودة بعد تنظيفها رسالة من احد جنود ، هيك قلكم شاهد ما هي الرسالة
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    May 8

    A new IS 'Central Africa' attack claim on a Congolese army barracks resulting in clashes with automatic weapons, "wounding a number" of soldiers before they fled and the militants say they captured ammunition of various kinds:

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    May 8

    explained in one photo. All the people i met there miss their christian neighbors. One of them told me he has two names. His christian neighbors use a different name to call him.

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    May 8

    Responding to the U.S.'s “maximum pressure”, says it will no longer respect all the limits placed on its nuclear research activities under the . The burden now falls on the JCPOA’s remaining signatories to prevent a dangerous escalation.

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    May 8
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    As has argued a while back, jihadists often expand by looking for chaos (banditry, civil war, ethnic strife and else) and bring in better weaponry, money and strategic thinking to coopt local players, trying to redirect them their way

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    May 8

    According to this report, Hezbollah is buying up weapons (via Bedouin smugglers in Sweida') that were previously supplied to MOC-backed rebel groups in Syria's southwest

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    May 7

    According to UN OCHA, the air strikes have caused at least 80 civilian casualties and more than 300 injuries. 150,000 displaced, 12 health facilities hit:

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  18. May 7

    .’s on Idlib militants’ and the HTS-backed Salvation Government’s attempted interference in humanitarian aid:

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    May 7

    via : More than 150,000 displaced in northwest in one week:

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    May 7

    A number of communities in are impacted by the intensified hostilities in NW ; many ppl have sought refuge in the open. The UN is calling on all parties to uphold int. humanitarian law and protect civilians.

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    May 6

    1/ THREAD: The Trump Administration knew that naming the Iranian IRGC as a terrorist group would lead to increased threats against U.S. troops in Iraq. That’s why Bush and Obama didn’t do it. They concluded the benefits did not outweigh the risks.

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