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@RashaAlAqeedi

Made in Mosul 🇮🇶Chai enthusiast. Name's pronounced ' Russia' Editor-in-Charge ; Robert A. Fox Fellow Usual caveats apply

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Joined March 2015
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  1. Pinned Tweet
    Oct 3

    Despite internet blackout, our staff at in Baghdad have been going to great lengths to send what they can. Footage from Tahrir Square a few hours ago

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  2. 32 seconds ago

    Someone tell Al Jazeera's boy Talha whatever that his obsession with me is disturbing. Move on, son.

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  3. 7 minutes ago

    Obama's disastrous foreign policy is to blame for the entire quagmire in the Middle East since 2009. Nonetheless this administration could have done one thing right: preventing a genocide. That's the least the Kurds deserve as an obligation.

    It is going to be soo tempting to reduce erratic US policies on North East Syria on Trump and his madness.. As usual, Obama, who set not only Turkey-YPG/PKK showdown in motion but also utterly ignored Syria and set red lines to watch thousands killed, will remain as cool as ever
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  4. Retweeted
    12 minutes ago

    Ugly. And we are at the 5th anniversary point of that costly struggle, costly defeat of at .

    So much fear in now. This city defeated ISIS against all odds with US support. There is even a Trump restaurant in as a sign of thanks for previous US support.…
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  5. 1 hour ago

    I'm guessing this is what "we have no long-term strategic interests in northern Syria" looks like: -subjecting a nation, an ally, to genocide. -creating another refugee crisis for KRG -potentially releasing thousands of ISIS fighters into Iraq/Syria again

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  6. 1 hour ago

    Lol

    Replying to @RashaAlAqeedi
    says person who supported destruction of Mosul and ethnic cleansing of sunni arabs in there millions
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  7. 2 hours ago

    By releasing them into Iraq

    -Kurds unlikely to simply hand over the detainees to - There are thousands (tens of thousands including and Iraqis) of suspected detainees in northeast Syria. Already violence has broken out in the camps. Unclear how could handle this. …
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  8. Retweeted
    3 hours ago

    And I bet this all is going to cost a helluva lot more than had we just properly integrated the refugees

    Replying to @hasavrat @MichaelDaventry @ragipsoylu
    No international actor has committed or offered reconstruction money needed to realise Ankara’s plans regarding re-settlement either. This is kind of a big deal.
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  9. Retweeted
    7 hours ago

    There could also easily be tens of thousands of (new) Syrian refugees who will now head to northern Iraq, while Iraq itself testers on the edge.

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  10. Retweeted
    8 hours ago

    Iraq is in chaos, and tomorrow, after Trump's green light for a Turkish invasion, northeastern Syria may be in chaos too. And the progress made in the war against ISIS—at great cost to local U.S. allies and to civilians—could soon be unraveling

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  11. 8 hours ago

    Kurds are facing ethnic cleansing and you're concerned that Turkey, who has allied with Jihadists, might torture ISIS prisoners?

    Seems virtually impossible that this complies with longstanding US treaty obligations on not putting prisoners in danger of torture or cruel treatment, which makes you wonder if it means what it says. Ratified treaties have force of law.
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    8 hours ago

    This is an excuse for the Turks to kill more Kurds. They give two shits about ISIS. And we will be complicit in it.

    The White House announces that Turkey will be invading Northern Syria and will take custody of all ISIS fighters captured in the past two years
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    8 hours ago

    Things North East Syria has to look forward to with Turkey's invasion. The same groups that do this for fun get even more people to displace, rob, and murder. Try to remember this when TRT World plays prop of pro-Turkish refugees being settled in the displaced's place.

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    Islamic militias destroy another shrine in the village of “Shah Deira” in Local sources confirm so far 17 Yazidi shrines destroyed in Afrin region …
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  14. 8 hours ago

    Imagine trusting Turkey with keeping ISIS prisoners.

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  15. Retweeted
    9 hours ago

    The US is now allowing the forces who fought ISIS to face an offensive from Turkey. This will have serious repercussions. Across the board. And region.

    President Trump is about to make major, consequential mistake in Syria. Sources say US is tonight informing its Syrian Kurdish allies that US is withdrawing from positions on Turkish border, abandoning so-called “security mechanism,” to allow an invasion by Turkish forces...
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  16. 10 hours ago

    The three of them passing around misinformation is the tweet equivalent of the human centipede.

    Replying to @snarwani @Partisangirl
    And Egypt.
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  17. Retweeted
    11 hours ago

    Just wrapped up an incredibly-brief overview of the protests in Iraq. By no means is this meant to be anything other than an overview.

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  18. Retweeted
    Oct 5

    2. أكو ناس تدخل عليكم ترسل الكم فيديوهات، مهما بدا لكم صحة الفيديو، لا تنشرون الفيديو دون تحقق من المرسل والفيديو نفسه. اكو ناس كاعد ترسل فيديوهات قديمة، او فيديوهات بس تدمير ممتلكات عامة بس قديمة، ويجي البعض ينشرها (تعاطفاً او يدور متابعين) ويضر بقضية الشباب.

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  19. Retweeted
    12 hours ago

    Nothing. Frightened and worried and miss my family a lot.

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  20. 12 hours ago

    Photo credit: Our brave reporters at . So lucky to have them.

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  21. 12 hours ago

    Just some young people in Iraq trying to document what they can without getting killed.

    هكذا يصور البعض في الاحتجاجات، يحمون أجسادهم بالقواطع الإسمنتية لتتسلل عدسات هواتفهم من خلفها وتوثق الأحداث.
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