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    Jul 12

    " Hasn't Won Anything" - My latest in underlines that 8yrs of brutal war has left with nothing but a chronically violent and chaotic failed state. Read here:

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    20 hours ago

    The moment we have reached in . This father.

    Bloody hell - I cannot even imagine... A father in today, desperately trying to climb down to his 2 children - one is stuck within rubble & another,…
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  3. 21 hours ago

    UPDATE: The girl shown stuck in the rubble *did* manage to rescue her baby brother. However, she just passed away in hospital, during surgery. Her brother remains in critical condition. Their mother & sister were killed.

    Bloody hell - I cannot even imagine... A father in today, desperately trying to climb down to his 2 children - one is stuck within rubble & another,…
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  4. 23 hours ago

    Sources in tell me both these children are now in hospital - in "bad" condition. Their mother and sister were killed.

    Bloody hell - I cannot even imagine... A father in today, desperately trying to climb down to his 2 children - one is stuck within rubble & another,…
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  5. 23 hours ago

    Bloody hell - I cannot even imagine... A father in today, desperately trying to climb down to his 2 children - one is stuck within rubble & another, a baby, is hanging mid-air, held up only by its t-shirt.

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  6. 24 hours ago

    ~73,000 women & children suspects are being held in the -held al-Hol camp in . just visited & described conditions as "unconscionable" - a "dustbowl inferno" of "indefinite" detention. Aid groups say kids are "regularly" dying.

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    Jul 23

    After years of bloody warfare, it’s time to recognize what the Syrian dictator rules over: a chronically violent and chaotic failed state.

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  8. Retweeted
    Jul 23

    يقدم برنامج المكافآت من أجل العدالة التابع لوزارة الخارجية الأمريكية مكافأة تصل إلى 5 ملايين دولار للحصول على معلومات عن شبكات للخطف أو الأشخاص المسؤولين عن خطف رجال الدين المسيحي: - ماهر محفوظ - مايكل كيال - غريغوريوس إبراهيم - بولس يازيجي - باولو دال أوغليو

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  9. Jul 23

    NEW from : - $5 million for information on kidnapping networks, responsible for taking 5 clerics in , whose fate is now unknown: 1. Paolo Dall'Oglio 2. Maher Mahfouz 3. Gregorios Ibrahim 4. Boulos Yazigi 5. Michael Kayyal

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    Jul 18

    . analyst pushes back on the idea that Assad has “won” the Syrian conflict, pointing to continued instability across Syria and challenges with reconstruction and nascent insurgency in Assad-held areas specifically.

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    Jul 12

    Assad Hasn’t Won Anything – Foreign Policy

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    Jul 13

    "The regime has not “won” anything. It has merely survived at the cost of Syrians’ blood and fear; stability remains far out of reach. The last holdouts of opposition in the country’s northwest seem intractable."

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  13. Jul 23

    Except the 10km (6 mile) proposal includes a key condition: no permanent military presence - only in/out patrols. Moreover, today's messy status quo risks raising the ire of , thereby making 's presence unsustainable. For good/bad, a solution is needed.

    Even if a Turkish occupation East of Euphrates was limited to 6 miles and not 20-25 miles like Erdogan wants, that would still include border cities of Qamislo, Kobane, Serekaniye, Derik.…
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  14. Jul 23

    "The sentencing memo sends a pointed message to -- a confessed domestic terrorist found comfort in your programming. His targets overlapped with the people vilified on your air. What do you have to say about this?"

    Cesar Sayoc, who mailed to x13 Democrats in Oct 2018 was: - A "Trump super-fan"…
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  15. Jul 23

    Cesar Sayoc, who mailed to x13 Democrats in Oct 2018 was: - A "Trump super-fan" - Radicalized by shows &

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  16. Jul 23

    "The recent re-shuffle in the regime has seemingly strengthened 's position & [that of] -allied figures." looks at whether is trying to install its own in & how that balances with :

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    Jul 19

    تشارلز_ليستر - لم يفز بشيء من حرب - تناول الكاتب تشارلز ليستر الحرب التي تعصف ب- منذ سنوات، وقال في مقال نشرته مجلة فورين بوليسي الأميركية إن رئيس النظام لم يفز بأي شيء من هذه الحرب الدامية.

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  18. Jul 23

    ., Dec 2015: "Donald is clearly out of his mind... he betrays a stupefying ignorance that makes him unfit to hold the office of President. I wouldn't want to expose Londoners to any unnecessary risk of meeting Donald ."

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  19. Jul 23

    *The* key unresolved issue is the size of the zone. - wants 40km (the max range of the T-155 "Fırtına" howitzer - to negate need for air support) - appears open to 10km, so as to exclude key urban terrain (i.e. like ) + issue of heavy weaponry proximity.

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  20. Jul 23

    According to , 's plan for a NE "secure zone" would resemble its policy, *not* or . A consensus exists to establish a zone, but key details remain: - Size - Urban control - Airspace - FSA role

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