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Research focuses on Syria and terrorism | History digressions, particularly on the Soviet Union | Likes are just bookmarks. RTs = ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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    18 Dec 2018

    The waged an undeclared war against through terrorists and rejectionist states. Since the end of the Cold War, Russia has retained alliances with such actors, notably , and sees Israel as an extension of America, the "Main Adversary".

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    12 hours ago

    My comment to on forced abortion in .

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  3. 6 hours ago

    Dayton killer: ■ Narrated Pittsburgh synagogue shooting on first date ■ kept talking about wanting to hurt people ■ made a list of people to rape + kill Ex-GF says "he fought for equality" and the odd "red flag" notwithstanding, didn't seem the type

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  4. 7 hours ago

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    1. While many foreign observers praised 's op-ed in , anyone who KNOWS Yemen will find it one-sided. The op-ed does a gross disservice to despite good intentions.…
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    9 hours ago

    PRESS RELEASE: Ablikim Yusup, once under threat of return to China over the weekend, was allowed to travel to the US as a safe third country. The international community must take steps to ensure Uyghurs & other Turkic Muslims are provided protection.

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    8 hours ago

    When asked what Turkey risks if it invades Northern and attacks the , the US Defence Secretary says , the US, and the PKK "have a lot of mutual interest"in Syria, primarily not letting Islamic State prisoners escape. Amazing. They still don't get it.

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    12 hours ago

    .'s quarterly report is depressing reading. Top line conclusions: - " consolidated its insurgency in & resurged in " -"US forces withdrew from at a time when US commanders said the needed more training & equipping for counterinsurgency ops"

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  8. 13 hours ago

    As has been pointed out by others, there is something especially heinous in "" sending Syrians back to face in this way since the dominant force in the Lebanese state, , bears significant responsibility for displacing these Syrians in the first place.

    General Security head says that 325,014 refugees in Lebanon have returned to Syria, overall
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  9. 13 hours ago

    : over 300,000 books related to Fethullah Gülen have been removed from schools and libraries, and destroyed since the coup attempt in 2016. Side-note: one of the sources used by the Guardian here is a bit 😬😬😬

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  10. 13 hours ago

    This would be my exact reaction:

    Hasm and VBIED doesnt seem right to me? This may be an attempt by Sisi to deflect from reality that Comprehensive Military Operation has not stopped Wilayat Sinai in the peninsula or the mainland
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  11. 13 hours ago

    : a car bombing outside a hospital on Aug. 4 killed twenty people and wounded nearly fifty in Cairo. The government has declared Hasm, a violent splinter of the Muslim Brotherhood, to be the primary suspect.

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  12. 14 hours ago

    Sentence that never fails to amuse: "Qaddafi senior has reached his Ceausescu moment: a full-dress (in the literal sense) meltdown into paranoia, megalomania, and delusion." [Hitchens, 2011]

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    Jul 12

    Dear Souls, my new book, Godless Utopia, is now on the website, where it can be pre-ordered for September:

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    15 hours ago

    Past practice has been to comb through the suspect’s writings in the effort to uncover some ideological affinities--usually right-wing affinities. But to do so with the Dayton shooter muddies a useful narrative.

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    17 hours ago

    Jon Huntsman will end his term as US ambassador to Moscow in October and will return to Utah to consider a run for governor. Comes a few days after Trump and Putin discussed the need for a new ambassador with Huntsman wrapping up his posting.

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  16. 16 hours ago

    The unravelling of the situation in Deraa was remarkably quick: it fell in July 2018, and already by mid-September bodies of reconciled oppositionists like Abd al-Mawla al-Haraki were being handed over to families after being tortured to death by Asad.

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  17. 16 hours ago

    (The TRUST operation was run by the Bolsheviks in the early 1920s, setting up a fake monarchist underground resistance group in the Soviet Union that lured exiled White Guards into showing themselves or returning to Russia, at which point they were killed)

    One resistance group in Deraa that *has* announced itself is the "Popular Resistance", but as notes, there is little clarity on whether it exists beyond social media. There is also great (and justified) fear that it is a TRUST operation being run by the Asad regime.
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  18. 17 hours ago

    One resistance group in Deraa that *has* announced itself is the "Popular Resistance", but as notes, there is little clarity on whether it exists beyond social media. There is also great (and justified) fear that it is a TRUST operation being run by the Asad regime.

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  19. 17 hours ago

    There's an average of 20 military operations per month against the pro-Asad coalition in Deraa. It's not exactly clear who is carrying them out, or how coordinated they are, only that they're escalating and the regime has no answers, writes .

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    17 hours ago

    Turkey announces its aircraft have killed 7 PKK in north Iraq.

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  21. 17 hours ago

    "All of the major population centers in are located along the Turkish border, and civilians there, including strident opponents of the , told me they would take up weapons to fight ... an invasion [by east of the Euphrates]."

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