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My new piece with
@samboosa_a for@ForeignPolicy on the severe movement restrictions placed on Iraqi families with perceived ties to ISIS & widespread sexual exploitation within camps holding themhttp://bit.ly/2GMHuXvShow this threadThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo - Elizabeth Tsurkov RetweetedThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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Jolani used humor, dressed casually and at times switched to spoken Levantine Arabic, something I've never heard him do previously. He's clearly working hard to win hearts & minds and appear approachable.
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HTS is clearly aware of the widespread view that they're "handing over" or "selling" areas to the regime & trying to counter it. This is the second media appearance by Jolani in 3 days. Prior to this, he has given very few interviews.
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* The solution Jolani offers to 3 million civilians trapped in Idlib facing intense Russian & regime bombings: Resistance and digging underground shelters across the "liberated" area, remaining steadfast on their land instead of fleeing.
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* People & factions in Idlib now finally understand what HTS knew all along: confrontation is the only way to go. We can not rely on int'l guarantors. Other countries have their own interests. This understanding that confrontation is the only way was lacking in previous years
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* HTS met with other [Idlib] factions and today, they started sending reinforcements to the front-lines. * Better if Turkish-backed FSA open a front with the regime in Aleppo, but they can enter Idlib as long as they don't threaten HTS & arrive straight to the front-lines
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The goals of the Russian-regime operation is to take over Sahel and Ghab & supposedly protect Hmeimim base. Other goal: to pressure European countries to give money for reconstruction by threatening Turkey & EU interests in displacing people to Turkey.
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Additional main points: * In previous areas that fell to Assad, 70% fell through "reconciliation" and 30% through fighting. HTS launched a campaign to arrest those interested in "reconciliations" and prevented this. * About 150 regime fighters were killed (fair assessment, imo)
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Hayat Tahrir al-Sham released a new 13-minute video w/ segments from a long meeting Jolani held with several Syrian media activists. The main goal was to push back against the widely held view that HTS isn't participating in battles/preventing others from joining the fightpic.twitter.com/jyrdIAcql0
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Bombing of Maarat al-Numan tonight via
@FARED60350386 who is in the townpic.twitter.com/jiJT0rzfCJShow this threadThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo -
A friend in Maarat al-Numan who is getting bombed right now by Russia/the regime upon hearing from me that Israel is bombing around Damascus "God willing it will bomb him [Assad] all the time." This is quite a common sentiment among anti-Assad Syrianspic.twitter.com/3iJ0A1HvcI
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Among the targets hit by Israel tonight is apparently the First Division HQ of the Syrian Army near al-Kiswe, south of Damascus. Source: "Voice of the Capital" (pro-opposition but largely reliable)
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Israel is bombing around Damascus, again. Syrian regime air defenses were activated.
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My thread on Omran al-Fares, 18, one of the dozens of rebels killed in recent weeks in Hama, and how his story is instructive regarding who is manning the front-lines of Syria's endless war http://bit.ly/2QccHaH via
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Friends (with poor quality cameras) are sending these. One Ramadan table in Maarat al-Numan and an airstrike just now on nearby Kafroumapic.twitter.com/pI6mXAWI2K
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Russian airstrikes on Maarat al-Numan, Idlib, just as Syrians gathered to have iftar. Friends in the town (which resisted jihadist groups for years) report unprecedented intensity of attacks. The regime is participating in attacks too.pic.twitter.com/BHGgjB2am2
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Yes, you are likely getting tired of hearing about it. We're also getting tired of reporting it. But there have now officially been 19 medical facilities hit in a span of 20 days. That is almost one a day. This has to stop.
#Syriahttps://www.uossm.us/breaking_maternity_children_s_hospital_bombed_in_syria?recruiter_id=659&fbclid=IwAR0SSv3heo1zloL75S7HBLubUvsNcsYUwLkCQhBQRr6OJ18tJVIwescTzzo …Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo -
correction: Omran was born in 2001 (not 2011) - 18-years-old when he was killed. 11 when he dropped out of school & began living under siege. 15 when he joined Nusra.
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