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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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    Oct 21

    Hacking the hackers: Russian group hijacked Iranian spying operation, officials say

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    8 hours ago

    Fun to remember DOD explicitly lied about this only a month ago, despite Trump asserting it repeatedly

    Pentagon says they have not been ordered to draw down forces in and nothing has changed, contradicting the assertions of the President.
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    8 hours ago

    Resolute Support Commander General Miller confirms Trump's assertion that US withdrawal from Afghanistan is already underway, with authorized strength down by "at least" 2,000 over the last year.

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    8 hours ago

    Out now: My paper "Response to and reparations for conflict-related sexual violence in Iraq: the case of Shi'a Turkmen in Tel Afar" is available from Reports

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  7. 3 hours ago

    23 OCT 1983: / massacred 305 of the people who had come to bring peace to Beirut. 241 of the dead were Americans. Imad Mughniya, the officer who oversaw Hizballah for decades, watched the twin suicide bombing he had organised from a nearby building roof.

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    21 hours ago

    A YPG-free zone under regime control is a not a safe zone. Otherwise Damascus and Tartus would be called safe zones.

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    4 hours ago

    Several Syrian Kurds in told me over the last few days that they are also fed up of all these Öcalan posters appearing at the demonstrations in European countries. "They (PKK) have delivered our areas to the regime, from the start."

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    5 hours ago

    The "National army" arrested many 's foreign females members (with children) near after released them by .

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    5 hours ago

    Gallery of Godless Utopia images in today:

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    19 hours ago

    Wooo. Extraordinary scene in Tripoli tonight. Estimate of 100,000 protestors in Nour square. This is the city that was written off as home of poor or a terror problem. Can’t write off now...

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  13. 15 hours ago

    If we were concerned about setting up on the border of a ally, when shot down a Russian jet and turned to us for collective support, that was the moment. Instead, we told Ankara to handle it alone, advice that so rarely ends well with our MENA allies.

    So Trump gave up joint U.S.-Turkey patrols so we could see joint Russia-Turkey patrols on the border of NATO ally?
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    17 hours ago

    1) In 2016, I colorized Czesława's photo and posted it on social media for the first time. She was just 14 when she was murdered behind the walls of Auschwitz concentration camp on 12 March, 1943. Her photo is haunting.

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    Oct 22

    This report is staggering and chilling. 1.2 million Syrians have been detained or arrested by the criminal Assad regime. It was so creative in its torment that 72 different torture methods were documented in its dungeons via

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  16. 17 hours ago

    Oxford's grandest college, Christ Church, is engaged in a fairly epic human-resources feud.

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  17. 17 hours ago

    "When it comes to … damning information about a figure [randos on the internet] … actively despise? Of course they’re going to believe it! As a species, we are not good critical thinkers when we gossip." on smears in the online world.

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  18. 19 hours ago

    "Wherever wins, mayhem prevails," writes for . Recent protests in to show that Iran's power is more fragile than the world perceives", and serve as a reminder that does own Shi'ism.

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    21 hours ago

    The expected situation foreseen in the Turkish-Russian agreement | Suriye Gündemi

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    21 hours ago

    See my new piece that outlines which Iraqi officials were involved in the sniper attacks on civilian protestors and the assaults, burning and bombing of TV stations. Today’s Iraqi government investigation is a whitewash, Read this instead.

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  21. 20 hours ago

    Reuel Marc Gerecht, Bernard Haykel, , Barbara Slavin, and Brett McGurk debating for the three crucial questions of the Middle East: , , and |

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