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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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  1. Pinned Tweet
    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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    7 hours ago

    Everyone’s telling scary stories for Halloween so I’ll talk about something that happened to me when I was a kid because hey, trauma never gets old.

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    12 hours ago

    "Um, none," David Schenker, top State Dept official on Middle East, when asked how much he's contributed to peace plan. Asked at hearing if he's at least aware of details, he says, "No," other than public statements by Jared Kushner

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    13 hours ago

    A US Official tells that “the President was referring to ISIS spokesperson Abu Hasan al-Muhajir.”

    Just confirmed that Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi’s number one replacement has been terminated by American troops. Most likely would have taken the top spot - Now he is also Dead!
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  5. 58 minutes ago

    This is admittedly quite niche but it was my first thought on seeing it, so ...

    "Get out of my church."
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  6. 59 minutes ago

    "Get out of my church."

    In six words or fewer, write a story about this photo...
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  7. Retweeted
    11 hours ago

    Bahareh Zare Bahari: Beauty queen says she will be killed if she is deported to Iran - CNN

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    10 hours ago

    lawl

    Hadi Al-Amiri announces his support for in order to achieve the interests of the people - Statement
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  9. 2 hours ago

    " failed to detect this terrorist in the border area and therefore has no right to aspire to a terrorist-free buffer zone on her border" is not a logical argument. I'm just asking for basic internal consistency in your agitprop, people (and journalists).

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    9 hours ago

    I'm super excited to be launching my book on the Muslim Brotherhood in Syria tomorrow night at in . Last minute tickets are available here:

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    2 hours ago

    Baghdadi’s head was intact after he blew himself up, so the Delta Force knew instantly they’d got him. “Jackpot” said one of the commandos over the radio

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    5 hours ago

    ilhan omar seems like someone you’d run into in grad school who, like, skates by on yass queen poststructuralist word salad but then you talk to her at a party and it turns out she actually thinks the moon landing was fake and mossad did 9/11

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    Oct 28

    Abu Khawla is still detained by the National Army north of Aleppo without being tried or charged by the National Army Command. And as his health is deteriorating, activists from called on the national army to clarify the fate of Abu Khawla,

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    3 hours ago

    Former President Obama to young people: “This idea of purity and you're never compromised and you're politically woke, and all that stuff — you should get over that quickly” Obama goes on to slam people who engage in cancel culture and who look to create constant online outrage

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  15. 3 hours ago

    "The Trump administration continues to use the rhetoric of maximum pressure against Iran", write and Behnam Ben Taleblu. Cancelling the waivers for Fordow and Arak would add something concrete to the words.

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  16. 3 hours ago

    : 43 suspected Islamic State () members were arrested in Istanbul and Bursa, 12 of them Syrian nationals, as they prepared attacks on Republic Day celebrations.

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  17. 3 hours ago

    claimed that the / had left the proposed “safe zone” in northern , and has responded that, while they believe the Russians, terrorists cannot be trusted and the Turkish Army will do what is necessary.

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    20 hours ago

    Important: is capitalizing on 's death AQ wires are circulating new video by jihad ideologue . Plan is to translate it into 10 languages. Calls Baghdadi's death "a glorious night in Muslim history". Urges loyalists to repent & join true

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    5 hours ago

    Lebanon is run by an Iranian-led terrorist organization that's at war with Lebanon's two neighbors. It cannot be stable and secure. More to the point, we wouldn't want such a terrorist-run polity to be stable and prosperous.

    We call on Lebanon’s political leaders to urgently facilitate the formation of a new government that can build a stable, prosperous, and secure that is responsive to the needs of its citizens and free of endemic corruption.
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    15 hours ago

    Politicians are always using us when it fits their agenda. If you truly care about Iran and Iranians, talk about the human rights situation in Iran and support groups and initiatives who have human rights as their main focus.

    The humanitarian crisis created by our sanctions in Iran is unconscionable. Ordinary Iranians bear the brunt and more than 3 million people are unemployed. …
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  21. 3 hours ago

    The honest positions against this: 1. The atrocities against the Armenians and other Christians (1915-23) do not meet the legal definition of genocide 2. Congress is no place to argue this matter 3. Relations with Turkey mean not passing this bill This is piffle from

    Omar's office has sent this statement to CNN explaining her present vote:
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    10 hours ago

    Iraqi protesters seized an Iranian sinper identified as Rasheed Bakhshi Nejat, DOB: 1985, who was dispatched to gun down Iraqi protesters. In this footage, the young protester says that this criminal man was shooting at students but we caught him and seized his ID and his stuff

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    16 hours ago

    Someone reminded me the other day that the Aramco attack was less than two months ago. Feels like we've had a decade's worth of news since then

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    6 hours ago

    DAS Rayburn: It is my privilege to be here in this week heading a U.S. diplomatic delegation that has come here to support the launching of the Constitutional Committee for under the auspices of the United Nations. Full remarks:

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    13 hours ago

    🚨’s Tahrir Square right now..

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  26. 5 hours ago

    This. Settling historical accounts should not be a matter for Legislatures, but it doesn't mean history isn't history.

    Fine to say the recognition of history shouldn’t be a matter of geopolitical revenge (and I’d agree), but the opportunity to recognize history shouldn’t be dismissed.
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    8 hours ago

    Caveat that DOD has no idea what is happening: -US still withdrawing as planned, still fewer troops than before, no long-term presence envisioned -Units moving to Conoco fields in the interim to allow SDF oil funds to build its forces [by smuggling to Assad] as they withdraw

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    12 hours ago

    Prime Minister to resign - sources

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    11 hours ago

    Proud to join my good friend to introduce legislation that stops the UN from supporting Assad, Russia, and Iran with US aid for . Read more here:

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  30. 10 hours ago

    Beyond audacious. Obscene. They didn't just avoid confronting , the root cause of everything, inc . They actively helped save him by tilting to , which is the origin of the alliance with "the Kurds" (). That's why they were picked, because they were not anti-Asad

    The fact that the architects of our failed Syria policy under Obama are the very ones writing high-profile opeds about the shame of betraying the Kurds and excoriating Trump for causing mass suffering in Syria is rather audacious, yet it continues
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    17 hours ago

    Yesterday, I with my colleagues introduced HR 4868, the Stop UN Support for Assad Act of 2019, which will ensure that U.S. taxpayer money does not go to the criminal Assad regime in Damascus.

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  33. 14 hours ago

    The celebration of 2,500 years of monarchy in in 1971 was an important part of the Imperial Government's effort to create a modern, national identity. The final line in the 's speech was (roughly): "Oh mighty , you may sleep for we are awake."

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    کوروش بزرگ پیام‌آور مدارا و دوستی و حقوق بشر…
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    15 hours ago

    Archbishop Abbot was born in 1562. Archbishop from 1611 to 1633, he was also one of the King James Bible translators. Abbot was responsible for establishing Lambeth Palace Library in accordance with Richard Bancroft's will, and also bequeathed his own books [Prints 034/019]

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  35. 15 hours ago

    Bureaucrat 1: "[The Prime Minister has] even questioned Foreign Office advice." Bureaucrat 2: "Surely not!" Bureaucrat 1: "We even see a danger the Cabinet may pursue its own foreign policy." Bureaucrat 2: "But that's absurd! The country can't have two foreign policies."

    An elected leader is entitled to impelent his/her foreign policy. A “shadow foreign policy” is run by opponents. For example: …
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  36. 15 hours ago

    Shameful from my local Labour Party.

    Birkenhead Labour Party overwhelmingly calls for Chris Williamson to be 'immediately' reinstated
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  37. 16 hours ago

    (Al-Qaduli is referred to here "Abu Alaa al-Afri", one of about a dozen pseudonyms he went under)

    Al-Qaduli is the most important known figure that emerged from the Iraqi jihadi underground, which had Tal Afar as a key node while Saddam while still in power. It seems Al-Malwa, rumoured to be a leading candidate to take over , was close to Al-Qaduli:
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  38. 16 hours ago

    Al-Qaduli is the most important known figure that emerged from the Iraqi jihadi underground, which had Tal Afar as a key node while Saddam while still in power. It seems Al-Malwa, rumoured to be a leading candidate to take over , was close to Al-Qaduli:

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  39. 16 hours ago

    Al-Qaduli was born in 1959 and by the time the U.S. killed him in March 2016, while he was serving as the caliph's deputy, he looked like this:

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  40. 16 hours ago

    Rumours Muhammad al-Mawla (Haji Abdullah al-Afri, Abdullah Qardash) is leader sent me back to profiles of leaders from Tal Afar. Abdurrahman al-Qaduli (Abu Ali al-Anbari) wasn't from Tal Afar, but spent most of his time there. This is him at the Islamic Institute in Tal Afar

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  41. Oct 28

    has lost its caliphate and caliph in a few months: it is vulnerable, says , if the US acts wisely in the next period to stop a smooth transition and the surge of insurgent and terrorist activity a new leader might use to consolidate himself.

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