Satoshi Ikeuchi 池内恵

@chutoislam

Professor of Religion and Global Security, RCAST Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology, The University of Tokyo. Islam & the Middle East studies.

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    Aug 17

    Description of my 2015 book on ISIS, which made an accidental and unfortunate blockbuster in Japan, caught in the middle of the political controversy surrounding the hostage crisis in Syria.

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    31 minutes ago

    Over the past 9 months I dealt with dramatic crises in the MidEast touching the US news cycle: LNA reaching Tripoli, Libya, Iran missiles in the region, Aden battle, Ikhwan uprising in Egypt, protests in Baghdad, Kurds drama with Turkey & demos in Lebanon. And it's not yet 2020

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    Another headache for the international community at the horizon?

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    7 hours ago

    As US troops were on the move, cloudy weather was making American air cover less effective, a senior US official told . Meanwhile, the Kobani facility “remains open to facilitate the additional movement of troops and equipment outside of Syria,” said .

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    7 hours ago

    NEW in : The "majority" of 1,000 US troops departed Syria today in ground convoys, leaving American forces to conduct "more dangerous" cross-border raids to root out ISIS, a senior US official said. "This will spread back into Iraq."

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    7 hours ago

    Meanwhile, the head of the SDF’s political wing was set to travel to the US, as first reported. Talking points obtained by Al-Monitor reveal the delegation plans to ask the Trump admin to help secure the M4 road, stop Turkish airstrikes, and keep US bases.

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    44 minutes ago

    Keep in mind most of best counter- operatives in MERV (E ) are drawn from ranks of the (whether or Arabs). This plan to stay in the MERV will most likely depend on some type of residual YPG force there to work. Ilham is in for an interesting discussion...

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    35 minutes ago

    If US troops are limited to Deir ez-Zor, US may focus on working with Arab portions of the SDF, as wrote, which some consider less effective than YPG. CENTCOM believes that ISIS could exploit tensions in DeZ after protests erupted in April over SDF mgmt of oil

    Note: Assad has long coveted retaking oil fields in Syria's North & East, staging a large attack on SDF-held Conoco field in Deir ez-Zor that left 200-300 pro-regime troops & Russian paramilitaries dead. It's not clear how 200 US troops can both fight ISIS & stop their advance. …
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    41 minutes ago

    The New York Times: "Trump Said to Favor Leaving a Few Hundred Troops in Eastern Syria"

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  10. 39 minutes ago

    アサド政権とクルド勢力とトルコだったら、NATO同盟国のトルコと組むのが当然だと思うのだが（完璧な世界ではないから、比較的マシな選択肢を取るとすると）、地域大国のトルコを「下請け」と見くびりすぎて、まともに言うことを聞いていない人たちが分析や報道しているようだ。

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  11. 39 minutes ago

    クルドが主体のSDFから、トルコが絶対に容認しないPKKの別組織YPGを排除して武装解除し、今まで隠れ蓑として組み込んできたアラブ人部隊だけ抜き出して米国が支援したら？というのはトルコのエルドアン系シンクタンクの人が提案してきたことなので、トランプはまったくエルドアンと歩調合わせている。

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    49 minutes ago

    Trump considering leaving 200 troops in eastern Syria because oil fields

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    2 hours ago

    Huge scoop from and : Trump leaning toward a Pentagon-backed plan to keep 200 US troops in eastern Syria to keep Assad off the oil fields and stop Russia's advance. When you thought Syria couldn't get more confusing, it did.

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    5 hours ago

    : Ilham Ahmed ( envoy) has landed in D.C. for high stakes talks with the administration on the future of N/E .

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    57 minutes ago

    Since September 2018, the understated goal of the U.S. team working on policy was to move away from the and focus on the "Arab ." It looks like that objective may soon be a reality, as I've mentioned several times in the past week.

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    6 hours ago

    Turkey Russia to discuss removal of Kurd militia from Syrian towns

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    7 hours ago

    Council of Syrian Tribes and Clans calls for Turkey to liberate Manbij from YPG terrorists

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    6 hours ago

    Turkey wants Syrian forces to leave border areas, aide says

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    6 hours ago

    Syrian Kurdish military official calls on Israel to take action against Turkey

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    6 hours ago

    Lebanon's PM agrees to reforms amid massive nationwide protests over economic crisis

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    6 hours ago

    🇱🇧📷Protests in Lebanon continue, causing universities, schools and banks to close

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