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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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    4 hours ago

    This |n man lost his first son because of an accident and went to his funeral. Once he came back to Tel Abyad, a car bomb exploded close to his second son, who got killed by the explosion.

    Adana’da kapıyla demirin arasında başının sıkışması sonucu hayatını kaybeden 4 yaşındaki oğlunu memleketleri Tel Abyad’da toprağa veren Suriyeli baba, dönüş yolunda terör örgütü PKK’nın tuzakladığı…
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    5 hours ago

    Turkey has less than 1 percent of the world population, but hosts nearly 15 percent of global refugee population

    Dünyadaki 7 mülteciden 1'i Türkiye'de yaşıyor
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    5 hours ago

    Broke: Meeting the democratically elected leader of the UK Woke: Meeting the unelected mass murderer Bashar Assad

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  5. 5 hours ago

    Trump rally last night: said he met Air Force pilots like Tom Cruise—just better looking, "the faces equal, maybe slightly better, and the bodies bigger"—and wondered whether Bill Clinton calls his "very dishonest wife ... 'Crooked Hillary' ... Maybe he just calls her 'Crooked'."

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    Dec 18

    Blaming everyone but itself, the regime is fundamentally incapable of remedying the depreciation of the pound, which has lost over 40% of its value in 2019.

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    7 hours ago

    A source gave a data set with 50 billion location pings from the phones of more than 12 million Americans as they moved through several major cities, including Washington, New York, San Francisco and Los Angeles.

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    7 hours ago

    : "Government of National Accord in Libya have officially requested that Turkey intervenes militarily in the civil war" -

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  9. 7 hours ago

    Democrats have fallen behind in three key states (Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin) because of their effort to impeach Trump.

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    7 hours ago

    Thread Racism 'prevalent' in the armed forces - according to at It isn't prevent at all, in any shape whatsoever The Army, like any large institution, cannot directly control the attitudes & views of every single individual [1]

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  11. 7 hours ago

    Finally delivering Brexit and repealing this piece of constitutional vandalism is enough for me. The rest is details.

    Fixed term Parliaments act to go!
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    Dec 18

    retains significant capabilities in 's -"controlled" central desert. In the last 48hrs, it captured a town (al-Shula) & cut a major highway (the M20) between al-Sukhna & Deir ez Zour. Regime militias are struggling to contain east of the .

    It's just being reported now that yesterday, ISIS raided the ash-Shulah region and cut the highway between Sukhnah and Deir-ez-Zor. Only tonight were Liwa al-Quds and NDF forces able to restore the points. No information…
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    8 hours ago

    Saraya Qasioun, insurgency group in , claimed responsibility for IED explosion hit regime checkpoint in Hammourya, Eastern Ghouta. 2 days ago they claimed responsibility for IED explosion hit NDF commander in S Damascus

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    14 hours ago

    Families from southern Idlib are fleeing toward the locked Turkish border with the entire content of their homes. They are not expecting to be able to return any time soon.

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    حركة نزوح هائلة للمدنيين تشهدها مدن وبلدات…
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    15 hours ago

    This is hilarious: In an attempt to dismiss 's scoop about drastic cuts to the US presence in Iraq as a misrepresented nothingburger, senior USAID and State officials confirm it and say explicitly it's because the US is terrified of Iran.

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    16 hours ago

    Bad idea. There are plenty of less dangerous, more accommodating places to get your meaning than politics.

    Liberals have lost touch with sentiment. People crave more meaning from their politicians says Helena Rosenblatt, a historian of political thought
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    Dec 18

    Pretty sure Obama was President in 2014 (Ukraine) and 2015 (syria)

    In the two biggest arenas of U.S.-Russian conflict over the last decade—Ukraine and Syria—Trump has handed Putin and his allies major victories, without a fight and without receiving anything in return, writes.
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    Dec 18

    Hezbollah has come far in Lebanese politics. But here I argue that the protest movement presents it with serious problems that aren't going away. For 's Navigator

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  20. 19 hours ago

    Salman al-Awda, one of the prominent clerics of the Sahwa anti-regime Islamist movement in Arabia who later ostensibly moderated, is to be sentenced tomorrow, possibly to death, after multiple delays in his legal proceedings.

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    Dec 18

    The assassination of a leader in the Iranian-backed Fourth Division in Damascus downtown SYRIA_CALL

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    Dec 17

    Excellent report by Ninar al-Ra’i on the security situation in . Looks at arrests, detention, and conscription of former opposition fighters and activists with a focus on Zamalka, Kafr Batna, and Saqba. Some brief thoughts below

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    Dec 17

    Iran interior mimister was asked in parliament why forces shot people in the head? He replied, “They shot them in the leg too.”

    صادقی: وزیر کشور در پاسخ به این که چرا به سر معترضان شلیک شده گفت به پا هم زده‌اند
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    Dec 13

    My scoop: Rouhani and Trump were extremely close to a deal in NY. Rouhani called for a one-year oil waiver; Trump insisted on a six-month oil waiver and purchase of 1 million barrels per day. Read my piece on : 

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    Dec 17

    From ADL's research into one of the Jersey City killers. 'Anti-Zionism,' conspiracy theories about Jews using cops to kill black ppl, comparing 'white' Jews to Nazis, 'greedy' tropes. In case you're wondering why ppl who usually pretend to care about antisemitism are silent now.

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    Dec 17

    's political spokesman, Suhail Shaheen, has welcomed US decision to drawdown troops in , saying the decision will help push the peace talks forward.

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    Dec 18

    Venezuelan Air Force Y-8 cargo aircraft possibly flying to North Korea. A few months ago Venezuela and North Korea signed Technology and Military agreements

    Hace menos de una semana reporté el despegando de madrugada en ruta "rara". Pues les comento que fue más allá de lo que imaginaba. está sobrevolando China. Una ruta similar a la de…
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    Dec 17

    I published a new article on the strategic implications of China's enhanced presence of Pakistan over at . 1/

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    21 hours ago

    Residents of Syria’s eastern desert fight to stay warm as temperatures dip below freezing. Heating fuels should be readily available b/c of nearby oil, but oil is trucked away & corruption ensures what remains is expensive & bad New from me

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    Dec 17

    . and editor was detained in Abu Dhabi where he was scheduled to speak at the , the UNs big anti corruption meetup. Not a promising start to the convention. He will be deported. The UAE has a lot of explaining to do about their commitment.

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  31. 20 hours ago

    sentenced two -inspired brothers of Lebanese descent for trying to blow up a plane with a bomb hidden in a meat-grinder they passed to a third brother, Amer. It was "Amer's homosexuality [that] prompted his siblings to plant the bomb on him."

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    Dec 18

    There where no forces loyal to Ceausescu after 22 of December. They all rank and file joined Iliescu and FSN Sad truth is we where killing each other for no reason at all. The military fired on themselves. All the deaths after 22 where an avoidable tragedy

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    Peaceful revolutions toppled communist regimes across Eastern Europe in 1989, but Romania's uprising was drenched in blood and culminated in a televised execution.
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    Dec 18

    I've lived on the Upper West Side. And I've now written about Trotsky for the New York Review of Books. I have not, alas, ever thrown a drink in Norman Mailer's face. But still:

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    Dec 18

    A mass grave was discovered in Fallujah with over 100 bodies. The assumption is that it was the work of the Iranian backed PMUs |

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    Dec 18

    Save me from my pessimism. How does this societal model _not_ spread and become the greatest challenge to liberal democracy since the Soviet Union?

    China’s police are hard at work building the largest domestic surveillance network the world has seen. The key is not so much tech as a lack of checks on police power. Hugely invasive networks of scanners and cameras now blanket most Chinese cities. …
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  36. Dec 18

    Doesn't get more perfect than that.

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    Dec 18

    The US is a more complex case and I needed a whole book to describe the current moment as the birth of something new - but the UK? How can someone set foot in London or Bristol or Edinburgh and think Britain is a poor failed state?

    "America and Britain are textbook examples of a new, gruesome phenomenon: rich nations self-destructing into poor failed states."
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  38. Dec 18

    BBC News - Gerard McSorley: Arrest warrant issued for Father Ted actor

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    Dec 18

    A screenshot of (in we are preparing also a map) - you can see the visualization of today's escalation in province. Heavy bombardment over cities and towns by the Russian, Assad forces. There are 70 000 people in Maarat an-Nouman alone.

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    Dec 17

    مقابلة حصرية مع ، قائد جماعة "عصائب أهل الحق" العراقية يناقش فيها الاتهامات التي وجهت إلى حركته بقتل المتظاهرين في مظاهرات العراق الحالية وعلاقة إيران وقاسم سليماني بما يجري

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  41. Dec 18

    The hilarious thing is that Thornberry being pro-Asad is not her greatest liability. There are few people more fundamentally unlikeable, and unlikeable in the exact way and to the exact audience that Labour needs its next leader not to be.

    Emily Thornberry is the first candidate to officially declare she will stand to be the next Labour leader
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