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@Charles_Lister

Senior Fellow & Director of at . Author of . Following , armed groups, , & T/RT≠ endorsement.

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Joined January 2012
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    Aug 14

    - "Leaving won’t make things any better — for the or " After & 's pieces on , I've added my 2 cents:

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    10 hours ago

    Important warning from & has become the prime node of , instead of ; ’s weakness & Russia’s locking the US out of the northwestern airspace may enable al-Qaeda to reassert itself on the global stage

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  3. 5 hours ago

    My latest piece for (Ar.) looks at increasing signs of - competition in & ’s role in the middle. seems to be “winning” the battles, but looks set to win the “war.” They’ll never break though.

    مقالتي الجديدة في : - دخلت في خضم تحولات مهمة …
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  4. 5 hours ago

    مقالتي الجديدة في : - دخلت في خضم تحولات مهمة

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    بعد نجاح إيران في إيجاد ذراع أمنية تنطلق من طهران إلى بغداد، ثم دمشق، ثم بيروت، ومنها إلى فلسطين، فقد حققت الجمهورية الإسلامية حتى الآن انتصاراً استراتيجياً يصعب الرجوع عنه. - شارلز ليستر

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  6. Sep 11

    Very generous - but initiated and it was very much a team effort!

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    and tbh, was the intellectual driving force behind it...I was honored to work with him
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  7. Sep 11

    This is a fascinating long read, by : - "The - Shadow War" Plenty of complicity in too, including in re-developing chemical weapons facilities.

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  8. Sep 11

    I was glad to co-author this piece on & with - make sure to take a read.

    .: After nearly two turbulent decades following the attacks, al Qaeda has settled down and is again intensely focused on attacking the West.
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    Sep 9

    Al Qaeda has settled down and is again intensely focused on attacking the West.

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    Sep 9

    “Eighteen years after 9/11, the terrorist group has found a new home—and rediscovered its old mission.” On al-Qaeda’s renewed focus, read our Associate Fellow , with in .

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  11. Sep 11

    It's 10.30am. By this time, 18yrs ago, the attacks of 9/11 were over. Here is the President of the USA's Twitter content, so far today. His priorities are clear & utterly shameful.

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  12. Sep 11

    Apparently weak Jordan- trade is all the fault of unpassed legislation in .. But it's nothing to do w. ' repeated hiking of import duties or 's crashed economy/currency. Oh & not to forget continued repression [& resulting instability) in .

    U.S. punishes Syria with sanctions — but allies like Jordan also pay a price
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  13. Sep 11

    My God.

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    Here’s on 9/11/2001 after the towers came down, (falsely) bragging about how one of his buildings had become the tallest in New York.
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    Sep 7

    Important warning from & — Syria has become the prime node of al Qaeda, instead of Yemen; ISIS’s weakness & Russia’s locking the US out of the northwestern airspace may enable al-Qaeda to reassert itself on the global stage:

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  15. Sep 11

    No particular surprises here. , led by far right populist Viktor Orban, is preparing to dispatch a chargé d’affaires to , before re-opening its embassy in .

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  16. Sep 11

    Out of 21 individuals listed, only 3 are confirmed to be present in ; 2 linked to & 1 linked to . That's 3/21, or 14%.

    Should be noted that many individuals linked to groups such as ISIS, Hamas, al Qaida that were designated as 'terrorists' by the US yesterday are based in Turkey h/t …
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  17. Sep 11

    : At the core of 's revitalized threat from is Huras al-Din, a formidable collection of AQ veterans with unparalleled experience in the global jihad. As it happens, the U.S. just designated HaD as "AQ in " yesterday. See this:

    NEW - U.S. has designated NW -based Tanzim Huras al-Din as "an al-Qaeda affiliate" & as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist (SDGT). …
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  18. Sep 11

    We've done a lot to weaken since 9/11 -- its core leadership is weaker than ever before, but many affiliates are now thriving. To mark 9/11, & I looked at , where AQ is reverting dangerously back to 's vision:

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  19. Sep 11

    18yrs ago today, the world was changed forever. 9/11 & all the innocent lives lost.

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  20. Sep 10

    It's September 11 in , and 48hrs since shuttered peace talks with the . A large bomb blast just hit central , near the U.S. Embassy, whose alarms were immediately triggered.

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  21. Sep 10

    Not quite, actually. - The June 30 strike hit a cell of loyalists recently expelled from Huras al-Din (for being too extreme). - The Aug 31 strike hit an Ansar al-Tawhid facility, in which Huras al-Din figures may have been visiting (none confirmed hit/killed though).

    Defense officials tell CNN that the group in the same al Qaeda affiliate that was targeted by US airstrikes in northwest Syria in August and June
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