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Author of NYT Best Sellers Ashley's War & Dressmaker of Khair Khana. Shield AI. Adjunct Sr Fellow, Council on For Relations. All views own. RTs not=endorsement.

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  1. Pinned Tweet
    7 Sep 2018

    As the US looks to remain in , a view of the rising on streets ISIS once ruled. Secured by forces which are in turn secured by the US presence.

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  2. 2 hours ago

    “Dodges Violence Against Women Question”

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  3. 3 hours ago

    In visited shopkeeper I met a year ago. Her business, which I worried might be closed, actually is booming. She has one worker and stayed open til 1230 am the other eve for Ramadan shoppers. Big issue: security and keeping stability.

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  4. 3 hours ago

    “We only have two ambulances and one van now,” said Obaida Othman, the head of the civil defence rescue service centre..”we are staying in the outskirts of our town among the trees in order to hide from the warplanes. We are doing our best to survive... to save other lives.”

    In the hope that an attritional campaign will escape international notice, Assad has slowly tightened the noose around Idlib. The fate of 3 million people there now depends on the brittle relationship between Turkey and Russia:
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  5. 4 hours ago

    The disappointment with Baghdadi among both women ISIS followers I met was very real. They said he let babies starve to death in their mothers’ arms in while their people “had juice, Pepsi and food.”

    Met 2 foreign women married to ISIS fighters this week in NE . Both disillusioned with Baghdadi. Not for crimes he committed against Yazidis or savagery of ISIS rule. But, they say, because he is getting fat in his video while letting children starve to death in Baghouz.
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    15 hours ago

    This week spent half a day meeting foreign women who followed ISIS & whose husbands fought for ISIS. And other half interviewing Syrian women who fought & killed ISIS on battlefield in Shedadi, Raqqa. Cannot tell story of this fight without talking to & about women.

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  7. 14 hours ago

    At the end of our conversation, the woman who followed Baghdadi’s call in 2014 and traveled to ISIS territory w/ her husband asked me this: do you think Sisi will take us back?

    Back from 6th trip to Ne .3 points: 1) US is an Oz-like presence: you don't see them ever, but they keep external actors at bay. 2) Foreign women who followed ISIS I met are a mix of disappointed, deluded & desiring to go home. 3) Women's gains are real, including in Raqqa.
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  8. 17 hours ago

    Both regime and ISIS. One mother who fled Raqqa 8.5 months pregnant whose story I have followed for 2 years put it this way: "I lived under the regime, FSA and SDF. Now when women complain they are heard. And women are taking on all kinds of new roles." Gains are fragile, real

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  9. 17 hours ago

    The 4th item re NE : Deir Ezzor remains in critical need of a plan. Overall, gains are real, fragile, worth protecting and in need of attention and resourcing. Pieces to come.

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  10. 17 hours ago

    Met 2 foreign women married to ISIS fighters this week in NE . Both disillusioned with Baghdadi. Not for crimes he committed against Yazidis or savagery of ISIS rule. But, they say, because he is getting fat in his video while letting children starve to death in Baghouz.

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  11. 17 hours ago

    Back from 6th trip to Ne .3 points: 1) US is an Oz-like presence: you don't see them ever, but they keep external actors at bay. 2) Foreign women who followed ISIS I met are a mix of disappointed, deluded & desiring to go home. 3) Women's gains are real, including in Raqqa.

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  12. May 22

    Quite a tweet.

    Le sperme suisse (aussi) est de mauvaise qualité, alertent des chercheurs. (L’alerte est parfaitement sérieuse.) | par
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  13. May 21

    Truly a hero. ““We women were not assistants,” she wrote in her memoir, “Testimony of a Survivor,” published in 2012, when she was 97. “We were fighters.”

    Neus Catalá, fought Franco and led orphans out of Spain, joined the French Resistance against the Nazis and survived two concentration camps, dies at 103.
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  14. May 14

    “As Xi begins his second five-year term as CCP general secretary and (soon) president, there are signs that the new model’s very successes are becoming liabilities.” From

    Xi Jinping’s accomplishments to date are undeniable. But his approach has also fueled many of China’s current problems, and it is time for Xi to course correct, writes .
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  15. May 14

    “Women are pushing to be included in the process. They are very strong. The challenge is always that they are told this is not the time for women.”

    "When we bring in women, everyone has a chance to be included." Afghan women's rights activist discusses the importance of an inclusive peace process in a new interview on :
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  16. May 13

    Read this piece. “The world is finally waking up to the ongoing and terrifying violations of human rights against the Uighurs — a Muslim minority in Northwest China. My own family is victim to these violations”

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  17. May 13

    Congratulations and so excited for next step in the journey of bringing this book to readers:

    My book, "The Targeter," is available for pre-order now! There is an audio version available as well. Many thanks to Brett McGurk, Ali Soufan, Joby Warric…
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  18. May 12

    This story will grow. A young activist - former journalist and adviser to politicians - gunned down on the street. Short in years and long on impact. Rest In Peace

    A young leader fighting against extremism and for her nation. Killed in broad daylight. Rest In Peace. And follow for more. ’s brightest lights extinguished before our eyes.
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    May 12

    I took a break from tearing apart the fabric of society, ie helping my boys w/homework, to empathize w/this touching piece from . "[W]hen I heard criticisms of single moms, I always wondered why no one seemed to talk about the dads." Ditto. So sorry for your loss.

    In praise of & the extraordinary community of women - none of whom had a college degree and all of whom had multiple jobs - who raised me:
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  20. May 12

    I have met so many incredible young . Their commitment to their country is not in question. Their chance at a future is.

    A young leader fighting against extremism and for her nation. Killed in broad daylight. Rest In Peace. And follow for more. ’s brightest lights extinguished before our eyes.
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