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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    In-depth - “Why are former officials propagating the betrayal of Kurds when they have argued that the SDF are a multi-ethnic group for years“

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    Such a climate of gloom in ahead of a visit by a senior official is unheard of

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    9 hours ago

    Opinion as a Kurd and as an SDF member: SDF must call for immediate withdrawal of all US troops from northern Syria asap. Without US interference SDF and SAA can at least protect Kurdish lives and prevent Kurdish cities from being ethnically cleansed.

    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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    13 hours ago

    After calls for a "millions march" in Sudan tomorrow, a national committee has finally been established to investigate the June 3rd massacre. It will be chaired by prolific human rights defender and lawyer, Nabeel Adeeb.

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    19 hours ago

    Vast increase in numbers in Downtown Beirut—probably fourfold compared to yesterday at the same time. Amazingly, Lebanon’s national unity government, in just a few years, seems to be rallying against itself a broader cross section of society than even Syrian occupation did

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    7 hours ago

    The unwisdom of this gesture is profound. If any single factor convinced the Turks to intervene, it was the perception in Ankara that the US military identified with the PKK.

    Iconic photo by . As the last U.S. troops pull out of Syria, an American soldier wears a YPJ emblem on his uniform as a sign…
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    23 hours ago

    Iconic photo by . As the last U.S. troops pull out of Syria, an American soldier wears a YPJ emblem on his uniform as a sign of solidarity with the Kurdish ally they are leaving behind. (The YPJ is the women's unit of YPG, they fiercely fought ISIS).

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    Jun 28

    Also, to really get clarity, you'd probably need to ask a follow-up question, namely that if they're "not religious," do they either want to be religious or do they think they *should* become religious?

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    Jun 28

    We have no way of knowing how the question was asked in Arabic, since the battery of survey questions has only so far been released in English

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    Jun 28

    The big new BBC Arabic poll has gotten some misleading coverage. BBC is calling this the rise of the "non-religious" 👇🏾 The problem is the common Arabic translation of "not religious" would be مش متدين or لست متدين which doesn't have quite the same implication as "not religious"

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    8 hours ago

    ‘Arab states condemnation of 's 'Peace Spring' exposes double standards and hidden agendas‘

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    8 hours ago

    Hamas decries Israel's participation in Bahraini conference

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    8 hours ago

    ‘, the and the demographic re-engineering of Syria‘ writes Amr Salahi

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    8 hours 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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    8 hours ago

    Another headache for the international community at the horizon?

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    15 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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    15 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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    15 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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    9 hours 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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    8 hours 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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