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Joshua Landis writes Syria Comment. Dir, Center for Mid East St @ U of Oklahoma. 8 yrs in Lebanon, 4 yrs in Syria. Past-President of Syria Studies Association.

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  1. 1 hour ago

    ISIS plotted to blow up Christians in Lebanon from its base in Idlib province under HTS and Turkish/Western protection. Sam Heller ⁦⁩ explains how Islamic State remains a deadly, sectarian adversary now that it has lost its Caliphate.

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    Important thread by Sam Heller on how HTS is shutting down ISIS in Idlib in desperate attempt to keep US and EU on its side against RU-SY reconquest of last rebel enclave.

    2. Lends credence to HTS's claims that it's working to roll up IS networks in Idlib. The "idari" says he was the node for money and supplies to the group's various Idlib sectors. Below, HTS announces it ambushed and killed IS's…
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    May 28

    Lebanese PM Sa'ad Hariri has met 4 times this month with David Satterfield, acting US assistant secretary of state for near eastern affairs. Think that's more than any other foreign official. Thrashing out Lebanese-Israeli maritime borders. Big for future oil & gas industry🌊

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  4. 3 hours ago

    The iniquities of death and life made worse by a civil war that pits two cruel leaders, espousing murderous ideologies, against each other.

    .: More than 150 "reconciled" men from northern Homs countryside killed on Idlib-Hama front line, where they face off against rebels who include Homs men chose to leave for Idlib:
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  5. 3 hours ago

    The Many Cruelties of Syria - Excellent review by Patrick Coburn of ⁦⁩ ‘s new book on the Assad family, which catalogues the crimes of the leader and his family as they cling to power.

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    24 hours ago

    Sober analysis by of the crisis as tip of the sand dune of strife A classic case of regional competition buoyed by oil revenue &with the conflict price payed by the weakest

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    May 28

    Opposition to Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi: The Testimony of a Former Amni (by )

    Opposition to Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi: Sheikh Abu Eisa al-Masri's Critique of Islamic State Media by
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    May 28

    How the Return of Iranian-Backed Militias From Syria Complicates U.S. Strategy

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  9. May 28

    Iran protecting the rights of religious minorities in many neighboring countries but not protecting the rights of its own religious minorities.

    The Complicated Politics of Identity: Shuts Down Church on territory at the same time that is cultivating Assyrian and other Christian Hashd Shaabi groups in .
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    May 27

    Archduke Franz Ferdinand, in February 1913, cautioning the Hapsburg elite against war

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    May 27

    Former British military official, Maj Gen Jonathan Shaw, writes in the that war with Iran "is largely of US making. And the UK, along with the rest of the sensible world, should have nothing to do with it."

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    May 28

    Two more citizens convicted of affiliation sentenced to death by court. Among 13 handed over by -Kurdish forces with help of US to Iraq for trial. These are the sixth in three days to receive the death penalty.

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    May 27

    ‘s economy has suffered immeasurably & has been unable to recover since end of 2016 due to the loss of business with and from having no access to the country’s main highways that pass through

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    May 27

    Michael Bonner was a dear friend and a man of great conscience and principle, an erudite and wide-ranging scholar but above all that rare person— a really nice guy. Am so devastated.

    I am truly saddened to learn that Michael Bonner, Professor of Islamic History at Univ. of Michigan, has passed away. It was his “Aristocratic Violence & Holy War,” an excellent study of the Arab-Byzantine frontier, that…
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    May 26

    Trump team's invoking faith and bible to justify Israeli occupation "is wrong and dangerous. It is wrong because—even as everyone is entitled to their own faith and religious narrative—such narratives cannot be basis of political sovereignty in our time"

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  16. May 27

    Why the US is so club footed in the Middle East by

    The US struggles to ‘push back’ on Iran’s expanding presence in and part of the problem lies in the messaging — my latest for with
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    May 27

    If it opposes the death penalty why did it allow Syrian Kurdish forces with US oversight to hand them over to , which has the death penalty? says will press# Iraq against death penalty for 3 members via

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    May 26

    French member, Leonardo Mark, 33, Paris postal worker says ISIS declared him medically unfit for fighting. Says he taught in ISIS school and twice tried to escape. Asks forgiveness from Iraqis and to be sent back to . Baghdad court sentences him to death by hanging.

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    May 26

    What will thousands more US troops and $8 b. more US arms in the hands of Arab autocrats do in the Middle East? Same chaos, destruction & de-development as always. My latest column today.

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    May 25

    The assistant to the Iranian army’s chief, Brigadier General Hassan Seifi, said that they have been able to “export their culture” to armed groups in Yemen, Lebanon, Gaza, and Afghanistan who can “overcome the largest army in the world.”

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