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  1. Pinned Tweet
    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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  2. 18 minutes ago

    Locals in 's Yarmouk Basin say authorities have just released 60 militants from prison - all have since returned to their homes.

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  3. 26 minutes ago

    On trade, the re-opening of the Nassib crossing with was meant to boost flows. But authorities have upped levies from $100 to $800 per truck. Trade is now negligible.

    Short on cash, 's regime is shaking down its loyalist business community - risking the very relationships & investors the regime needs if it has any hope of beginning a [minimal] recovery.…
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  4. 27 minutes ago

    Short on cash, 's regime is shaking down its loyalist business community - risking the very relationships & investors the regime needs if it has any hope of beginning a [minimal] recovery. Great reporting from & :

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  5. 32 minutes ago

    Pro- journalists are being arrested & intimidated by 's intel apparatus, for crossing "red lines" -- like reporting on fuel crises, prove rises & Army conscript conditions. says "back to business" is being heard "loud & clear."

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  6. 37 minutes ago

    Glad to see that met substantively with , during a recent visit in . Omar's is an invaluable resource on all things Deir ez Zour - a critical, make-or-break theater for U.S. strategy today.

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  7. 48 minutes ago

    "cadres" remain embedded in councils - often overruling local decisions. According to a veteran fighter, these "cadres" arrived in in 2012 from , as handed the NE peacefully to the . Some Arabs call them "the new Alawis" - i.e. 2.0

    This is a must read on NE , by , who's been in the area: - The 's leadership distrusts locals, particu…
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  8. 51 minutes ago

    This is a must read on NE , by , who's been in the area: - The 's leadership distrusts locals, particularly , choosing instead to exert authority on all decision-making. The resulting resentment risks fueling , again.

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  9. 57 minutes ago

    This is 5yr-old Riham (L). After a bomb hit her home, she was pinned into rubble 5-stories up. In this image (R), she's shown rescuing her baby sister Tuqa, who's hanging in the air by her clothes. Riham passed away yesterday, along w. her mother & another sister.

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    Jul 24

    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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    Jul 24

    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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  12. Jul 24

    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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  13. Jul 24

    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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  14. Jul 24

    ~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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  15. Retweeted
    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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    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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  17. 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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