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Passionate about human rights. Research Fellow at the Forum for Regional Thinking focusing on Syria & Iraq. Admin

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    Jul 22

    Assad's victory came at an immense cost to his sect. My new research based on multiple interviews with Alawis inside Syria is finally out with

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    5 hours ago

    ’s fieldwork finds “the consensus of opinion...is that the unclear future of the SDF governance project, insecurity, and poor service provision are significantly undermining the legitimacy of the U.S.-backed governance project in Raqqa.”

    In the Islamic State’s Former Stronghold, a Secret Yearning for Assad my new piece for from my recent visit to Raqqa
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    has executed these 2 men and a third unknown person - accord to Bahraini rights group citing the Public Prosecution office. Bird said Ali was tortured &made to sign the confession blindfolded while Ahmad was held incommunicado &forced to sign confession

    ⁦⁩ warns poised to execute two of its citizens imminently on terror charges and urged the King to pardon them. Both men - Ali al-Arab, 25, and Ahmad al-Malali, 24, claim they were tortured and coerced into signing confessions
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  4. 16 hours ago

    In the Islamic State’s Former Stronghold, a Secret Yearning for Assad my new piece for from my recent visit to Raqqa

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  5. 23 hours ago

    There have been 5 attempted assassinations (one of them killed the target) of former rebel commanders in southern Syria over the past 24 hours

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    Jul 26

    I’m told the UN is monitoring arrests of refugees returning to Syria, but staying quiet about what it finds. I’ve been trying for months to get basic figures from and , contacting multiple press/media offices repeatedly without success.

    The UNHCR should be shouting about the dangers Syria's returnees face with the same vigor they just shouted at the US. Here, the recent death of two returnees to Al-Tal is highlighted. It's not safe to return and we should be talking about that.
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  7. Jul 26

    Yasser al-Dahla, former leader of the rebel group "Gathering of the Youth of Baggara" was assassinated today in Deir Ezzor. Dahla returned to Deir Ezzor w/ the SDF to fight ISIS, but since then has run afoul of the SDF's leadership & previously survived 3 assassination attempts.

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    Jul 25

    Such declarations from Abbas, like resignation letters from Saeb Erekat, are not worth the paper they're printed on

    Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas declares end to security coordination with Israel
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    Jul 25

    “Separating the bodies is difficult because many of them are infants, between 1 and 2 years of age, buried between their mothers’ arms.” — Iraq Unearths Mass Graves Believed to Contain Kurds Slain in 1987-88

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  10. Jul 25

    مقالي الجديد مع عصام الحسن عن مركزية صنع القرار في المناطق الواقعة تحت سيطرة قسد

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    Jul 25

    Thank you for exposing this tragedy . "But the logic of withholding food from starving people now because we might not be able to feed them later is lost on those people and Americans who support them."

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  12. Jul 25

    My new piece for with Esam al-Hassan, based on extensive fieldwork in northern & eastern Syria, examines the centralized decision-making processes in areas under SDF control & the tensions arising from it

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    Jul 24

    Egyptian minister appears to threaten dissidents during Toronto speech. “We will not tolerate anything to be said about it. Anyone who says anything [negative] about Egypt abroad will be cut.” (ht ⁦⁩)

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  14. Jul 24

    Streets, squares & shops in Aksaray and Fatih are noticeably less busy than usual. I could still see families out, but many young men are staying indoors. A friend with a kimlik issued in Hatay but works in Istanbul told me "you make 100 calculations before you leave the house."

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  15. Jul 24

    Syrians in Istanbul are wasting so much of their time avoiding places where there is police presence due to fear they'll be caught with a kimlik (temporary protection card) issued by a different province & deported to Idlib. Many have entirely stopped using the metro.

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  16. Jul 24

    The scary thing is that normal people, not sociopaths, can be made to carry out heinous crimes. Arendt termed it "the banality of evil"

    Sociopathy
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    Jul 24

    The Israeli army admits it secretly changed its policy once it realized that shooting unarmed protesters in the leg was lethal. One rights group says this is an admission that Israel was killing protesters without any justification | By

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    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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    Jul 23

    New in-depth research by into Syria's Alawi community, which incurred immense losses to keep in power a corrupt authoritarian regime that the community sees as essential to its survival

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    Jul 23

    Me and Qosai Amameh spoke to Syrian refugees deported from Istanbul to Syria since last week—including those registered in the city, despite official claims that this is a campaign against “irregular” refugees there. Our latest for

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    Jul 23

    Iraq began exhuming the remains of dozens of victims, including children, likely killed during ex-dictator Saddam Hussein's campaign against the country's Kurds, a forensics official told AFP

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