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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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    48 minutes ago

    Thread - 4/4: /Quds Force HQ in airport, . Before and after 's airst rike.

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    1 hour ago

    Iranian American group follows Khamenei’s lead, misleading and distorting history

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    3 hours ago

    My entire life...summed up right here:

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    11 hours ago

    Number of Russians who consider freedom of speech an important freedom has risen from 34% in 2017 to 58% in 2019.

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    Nov 19

    Iraq in a tweet: 13 years ago today my father was kidnapped, 3 days after reporting corrupt practices at the Ministry of Health to his superiors. The person responsible for his murder went from prison to heading the parliamentary defence committee.

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    4 hours ago

    Russia continues to murder toddlers with impunity. They’ve had spy and recon planes in the air the last few days; they know exactly what they are doing.

    A new massacre committed by the Russian due to air strikes targeting Maarat al-Numan, 5 killed and many wounded including CHILDREN
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    8 hours ago

    All I’ve heard from diplos and politicians from the region, EU, and elsewhere, about Iraq and Lebanon protests is nobody really knows what they want and they lack leadership. They prioritize stable govt and a couple of concessions. The ubiquitous cynicism is quite something.

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    4 hours ago

    Very excited for to publish ' latest - a detailed look at the 's deployments to NE following 's deal w. . Fascinating & important details on a "wild cocktail of units," indicating manpower challenges.

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    6 hours ago

    Interesting the Maldives group. Seems like they are starting to become FFs in multiple locales now and that Syria wasn’t just an aberration.

    243 ISIS fighters from: , , , , , and are in gov custody in eastern province.
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    6 hours ago

    Per Fars News, Iran claiming it has detained German, Turkish, & Afghan dual nationals during , accusing them of being trained & funded by foreign services. Part of 's crackdown playbook--Iran made similar claims during 2017-18 protests.

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  12. 5 hours ago

    Quds Force headquarters seems like something that should have been destroyed a long while ago. The ability to hide/protect such things is because has essentially carried out state capture in and won't destroy the state ().

    Israel struck multiple Iranian bases, Syrian Surface-to-air missile batteries and Assad's National Defense HQ at Damascus Airport, which houses Iran's Quds Force headquarters
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    13 hours ago

    Explosive story from the British consulate worker who was seized by Chinese police as he prepared to re-enter Hong Kong from the mainland. He claims he was tortured to give information about (non-existent) British masterminds behind the protests. He's now seeking asylum overseas.

    Simon Cheng, a Hong Kong citizen, said he was questioned repeatedly about the role his interrogators presumed Britain was playing in fomenting the unrest in the city.
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    6 hours ago

    BREAKING: King Salman: "We hope that the Riyadh agreement will open the door to wider peace talks in ." is now making it public that they are seeking to end their intervention in Yemen. They are undoubtedly seeking concessions w/ .

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  15. 12 hours ago

    adopted a policy of attacking the bases set up and avoiding killing people, as the officers recruited to their cause and wove the Islamic revolution into the fabric of society. An even worse mistake was putting off-limits.

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  16. 12 hours ago

    Strange that there should be such a vast infrastructure to hit, given 's announcement about 18 months ago it had eliminated everything ... and the dozens of airstrikes since then. A sceptic would think the policy wasn't working.

    confirms having struck tens of Quds force, Shiite milita, and Syrian regime targets in response to rockets fired towards yesterday.
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  17. 13 hours ago

    >> Abdullah Mohtadi of Komala, Communist he may be, still finds the [ in ] to be a bit much: established by outsiders ( from Turkey), "fanatic ... very undemocratic in nature ... [and] no principles. I mean, they can deal with Satan."

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  18. 13 hours ago

    Britain is obviously deeply sorry to have disappointed you.

    The two biggest decisions in my life have been to study in the United Kingdom and to make my home in the United States. The double whammy of an awful election debate in Britain and the rot…
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  19. 13 hours ago

    >> The issue in , as everywhere else, is *which* . Abdullah Mohtadi and his Maoist Komala Party are not really the basis for either a mass movement or a Western policy. It's not clear how much reach he has inside Iranian Kurdistan and has none beyond that. >>

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  20. 13 hours ago

    How Activists Are Getting Around Iran’s Internet Blackout There is mention here of the dimension in Iran, which could be very important >>

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    18 hours ago

    The situation in Syria has indeed gotten worse: new DoD IG report.

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    Nov 18

    🇪🇬The military’s takeover in 2013 transformed its role in the national economy, turning it into an autonomous actor that can reshape markets and influence government policy setting & investment strategies. Read my latest report:

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    15 hours ago

    Some of the Iranian-made 38mm tear gas cartridges showing up in Iraq. Left: 2011, Homs, Syria Right: 2019, Iraq

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    17 hours ago

    Half of Shiraz is on fire. As are parts of Tehran, Karaj, Isfahan etc. Regime forces are shooting at people freely, even from helicopters. There’s no way casualties are in the hundreds. The regime has blacked out Iran so it can kill freely

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    16 hours ago

    . is not just the best documentary to have come out of Syria, it is one of the best documentaries ever made on war. It will be on PBS tonight. Don't miss!

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    In a time of conflict and darkness in her home in Aleppo, Syria, one young woman kept her camera rolling — while falling in love, getting married, having a daughter and saying goodbye as her city crumbled.…
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    Jan 20

    Israeli strikes aren't deterring anything, and haven't for the past 6 years. In the short term, Iran will keep entrenching, Israel will keep bombing into the void, and the little game will continue as Iran inches towards genuine retaliatory options.

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  27. 16 hours ago

    "The [] regime's recapture of East Ghouta has not promoted stability and normalcy, but rather led to more suffering and insecurity for its residents. The situation resembles that of [Deraa in] southwest and other former opposition territories."

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  28. 16 hours ago

    In East Ghuta, seized 18 months ago by the Asad/Iran system, the totalitarianism extends so far that "[d]octors cannot provide any form of treatment to patients without first informing regime intelligence forces, who may decide to investigate."

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  29. 16 hours ago

    The Asad/Iran system's reconquest of East Ghuta, the rebellious suburbs of Damascus, brought back the apparatus of surveillance and terror, but basic services like education and healthcare remain unavailable to the population and the economy is unrepaired.

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  30. 16 hours ago

    Two emirs the Iraqis say have infiltrated into are: - Khair-Allah Abdullah Fatthi, b. 1977 in Saladin province - Hussein Farhan Asslebi al-Jumayli, b. 1981 in Anbar province Said to be "among the best bomb makers that ISIS ever had".

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  31. 16 hours ago

    military intelligence says emirs have "bribed their way through lines to relative safety in Gazientep in southern ", where they are forming new cells, and they are focused on prison-breaks for their comrades in and |

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  32. 16 hours ago

    has falsified statistics about organ donors: far from being mostly voluntary, the "donors" are people induced by large cash payments from the state and others who are outright forced to give up their organs, mostly harvested from executed prisoners.

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  33. 17 hours ago

    Was Columbus secretly a Jew?

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  34. 17 hours ago

    "Gallipoli Memorial Lecture, Modern Alliances, and Modern Combat", by .

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    Nov 19

    This is horrifying

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    18 hours ago

    Statement from the regarding strikes on /.

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  37. 18 hours ago

    If anyone can help out ...

    Serious question: Are there any good Yitzhak Rabin biographies; ones that aren’t hagiographical?
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  38. 18 hours ago

    Labour's Shadow Home Secretary Diane Abbott is being criticised after she posed for a photograph with Shraga Stern, a Haredi activist who wanted to prevent homosexual sex education in Jewish religious schools.

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    21 hours ago
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    Literally mere moments

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  40. 21 hours ago

    If the Tories start using memes in their social media messaging, we're going to have to go through the "doctored photographs" media cycle, aren't we.

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  41. 21 hours ago

    From "The Thick of It" section of the British Election campaign, has spent the day denying she kills squirrels.

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