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    Jan 9

    Why did Syrians celebrate Soleimani's assassination? I interviewed some of his victims, whose voices have largely been ignored in the heated debate following the U.S. strike

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  2. 51 minutes ago

    Ahrar al-Sharqiya took over the base of Division 20 in Mabrouka, Hassakeh. Due to tribal ties between some of the fighters & imbalance of power, fighters in Hassakeh defected from Division 20. Convoys of Ahrar attackers passed unhindered through Turkish checkpoints.

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    22 hours ago

    517 individuals including 371 children have died in Hol Camp in 2019 - primarily those who arrived with severe malnutrition, plus diarrhoea with dehydration and pneumonia. At 18.75 per 1000 residents, the camp has a worse mortality rate than any nation-state in the world.

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  4. 10 hours ago

    Ahrar al-Sharqiya has also overrun the HQ of Division 20 in Suluk, Raqqa. Division 20 was established in 2018 with Turkish support by fighters who were defeated by ISIS in Deir Ezzor, fled to the Qalamoon Mountains, then were defeated by the regime & bussed to northern Syria.

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  5. 10 hours ago

    Protest today in Sweidaa, southern Syria, against living conditions as the prices of basic goods skyrocket. One man chants "we want to call for freedom" & the rest interrupt him. Protesters don't want to be seen as political. They just want to be able to feed their families.

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    هتف أحدهم: بدنا نادي حرية أخذو منه المايكرفون ومنعوه من الهتاف ثورة جياع مسموحة لكن ثورة كرامة ممنوعة في ديار…
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  6. 11 hours ago

    Syria TV also reporting that the Russia isn't interested in a new ceasefire in Idlib & is seeking a "decisive military settlement." Turkey reportedly asked the US to renew weapons provision to the Syrian opposition, but hasn't received a response

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  7. 11 hours ago

    Hayat Tahrir al-Sham keeps trying to get civilians in to join its ranks. In this event in the Aleppo countryside before dozens of children & men, they managed to get 2 to join. More on rebel recruitment challenges in Idlib

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    11 hours ago

    Important thread on the systematic persecution of the Turkmen community by the Ba’ath regime

    On this day, 40 years ago, Saddam Hussain's brutal regime executed prominent Iraqi Turkmeni figures. After days of torture, Abdullah Abdurrahman, Necdet Koçak, Riza Demirci, and Adil Serif were executed.
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    11 hours ago

    Iranian Hardliners in Full Panic Mode. Senior clerical hawk -- Ahmad Alamohoda -- says students who refused to walk on American/Israeli flags are "fifth columnists" engaged in treason. Also, calls for the "dismemberment" of the UK Ambassador.

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    سفیر آمریکا در برلین با توییت سخنان امام‌جمعه…
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    11 hours ago

    "If the situation in Syria could get worse, it will get worse" A year ago I came up with this law. Since then, it has been proven to be accurate.

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  11. 12 hours ago

    Turkish intelligence told commanders of the National Liberation Front, the rebels they support in Idlib, that the regime & Russia are determined to occupy Idlib & are unwilling to accept a ceasefire

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  12. 13 hours ago

    Ahrar al-Sharqiya took over the bases of Division 20 in al-Bab & Efrîn after clashes between the 2 Turkish-backed factions. Tensions have been brewing between them for months & today's car bomb attack, unlikely to have been deployed by Division 20, is being used as a pretext.

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  13. 13 hours ago

    Conditions in al-Hawl will likely deteriorate in the coming year due to the Russian veto at the UN on providing cross-border aid to NE Syria. The Kurdish Red Crescent, reliant on cross-border aid, is the major health-care provider at the camp.

    All UN aid to NE Syria has now been cut off via Russian veto. Local officials say this means:…
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  14. 13 hours ago

    66% of al-Hawl residents are children under the age of 12. Whatever you think of their parents, these children are blameless and should be taken out asap.

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  15. 13 hours ago

    Shocking, unacceptable statistic: During 2019, 517 humans, 71% of them children, died in al-Hawl camp, housing ISIS-linked families. Malnutrition, lack of heating & proper medical care are the main causes.

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  16. 13 hours ago

    Ahrar al-Sharqiya arrested Division 20 fighters (both are Turkish-backed Syrian factions), in Efrîn. Ahrar accused the Division 20 of being behind a car bombings today in Suluk, Raqqa, which killed Ahrar & Division 20 fighters & Turkish officers. Tensions in al-Bab & Suluk too.

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    Jan 15

    All UN aid to NE Syria has now been cut off via Russian veto. Local officials say this means: - 60-70% reduction in aid to Hol camp - 50% reduction to areas liberated from ISIS (Raqqa, Deir-ez-Zor) - Severing of aid to Kurdish Red Crescent & IDPs displaced by Turkish invasion

    The lifeline of cross-border UN aid from Iraq into North and East Syria is about to be cut off, with all aid for Syria to be routed through Damascus.…
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  18. 21 hours ago

    Rumors have been circling about a looming regime offensive on western Aleppo, an area hosting hundreds of thousands of displaced civilians

    Russian warplanes targeted Ainjara and Kafr Naha towns in western countryside while regime artillery hit Khan al-Asal and Kafr Daal, the area was relatively calm for months and host large numbers of IDPs, the airstrikes could prove regime's plan to attack W Aleppo
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    22 hours ago

    for the second day protesters gathered in front of the Governor's Office in city demanding better services and living conditions

    locals in Swayda city and Shahba town in Swayda province protesting against the recent increase in food and fuel prices in addition to the absence of services and security in the city under the slogan "we want to live…
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    24 hours ago

    Three interlocking shifts in Lebanon: protests turn to rioting for lack of any response in months; the mobilization encompasses activists and the sectarian thugs who would previously beat them up; and the police is now repressing blindly, via sweeping arrests often without basis

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  21. 22 hours ago

    Quite sympathetic profile of a leader offering a vision of endless repression to the peoples of the Middle East, whom he perceives as intrinsically radical & dangerous

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    Jan 15

    (1/3) Lebanese state marks a new unprecedented wave of police violence, probably due to a political decision to end protests. . More than 100 detainees in the last 2 days. 45 still being held since 48 hours. Most of detainees last night showed signs of bodily injuries and beating

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    Jan 15

    Shia & Sunni against sectarianism. This is what protesters are chanting in Mar Elias area tonight

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  24. Jan 15

    Protest today in Sweidaa, a city nominally under Assad regime control but in reality enjoys a degree of autonomy. They chant "we want to live" and "robbers! thieves!" at government officials. Syrian Pound his all-time low today. $1=SYP 1155

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  25. Jan 15

    2 major far right parties, Jewish Home and the New Right, will be running together in the March elections in Israel to avoid being erased by the electoral threshold. The fascist Jewish Power will run on its own (& is thus unlikely to cross the threshold).

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    Jan 15

    25 different opposition armed groups were responsible for more than 500 against the people in : While the fate of half of them is still unknown. By

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    Jan 15

    Syrians humor always glamour in the darkest days: in Idlib, locals used leaflets dropped by regime helicopters to wrap the Shaibiyat sweets on social media, Syrians saying Dollar became full HD as it reached 1080 SYP made fun of Assad's aid who said economy now better than 2011

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  28. Jan 15

    At least 17 killed in airstrikes by a Su-23 jet (regime & Russia use it) against a popular market & nearby neighborhood in Idlib city. Among those killed in Civil Defense employee Muhammad Shadi al-As'ad

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    Jan 15

    Or more recently, the Yazidis

    Try telling Bosnians or Kosovars that humanitarian intervention is a "contradiction in terms"
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    Jan 15

    30-secnd-drop suggesting flight elevation of roughly 4.5 km (plus forward momentum). Ejected from back hatch, you can tell the crude munition doesn't begin to stabilize until 15-20 sec into fall. Absolutely impossible to target anything smaller than a town. An inherent war crime.

    Video showing the moment of dropping barrel bomb by on vicinity of Kfarrouma village in , Jan 15, 2020. We note the bombing was on 3rd day of ceasefire agreement between & in 4th zone which went into force in Jan 12, 2020. …
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    Jan 15

    Interesting tidbits in IDF Military Intel assessment for 2020: -US has 85k troops deployed in Mideast -18k deployed by Trump just since May 2018 -Russia has 5k troops in Syria -30k Shia militiamen in Syria -800 Iranian military personnel in Syria

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    Jan 15

    You're jailed on flimsy charges, tortured, mistreated, left to die in prison, and then your family is barred from even holding a funeral service. "For security reasons." This in a country that has received $83bn in American military aid.

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  33. Jan 15

    Report by on the US strategy of "maximum pressure" on the Assad regime to compel it to accept political reforms. Policy includes encouraging EU to place new sanctions on regime cronies, exploiting collapsing SYP to ratchet up pressure

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  34. Jan 15

    صحيفة الغارديان البريطانية: ٢٠٠٠ مقاتل من الجيش الوطني قد وصلوا أو على وشك الوصول إلى ليبيا للقتال ضد قوات حفتر. راتب المقاتل هو ٢٠٠٠ دولار شهرياً مدفوعة من حكومة الوفاق الليبية. وعدت تركيا تجنيس كل المقاتلين الذين ذهبوا إلى ليبيا

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  35. Jan 15

    The Guardian report confirms: Syrian "National Army" fighters to be paid $2000 monthly & granted Turkish citizenship. by &

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  36. Jan 15

    Excellent thread by Anshel on Bibi's hysteria

    24 hours to deadline for filing candidates lists for March 2 election and political neophyte Rafi Peretz now isolated with a shell of a party which was once Jewish Home and his pact to run with neo-Kahanist Ben Gvir. There’s a good chance they won’t pass the electoral threshold >
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  37. Jan 14

    Local Cross-line Coordination in Syria Detailed studies of cross-boundary trade in Homs, Daraa, Manbij & northern Hama

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  38. Jan 14

    The deep roots of the depreciation of the Syrian pound New excellent research by Joseph Daher, pointing to the structural issues at the heart of the Syrian pound's collapse

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  39. Jan 14

    Syrian state news agency reports that Israeli jets struck the T4 base, claiming that all but 4 missiles were intercepted

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  40. Jan 14

    Seems like Israel is bombing the T4 base again, which houses Iranian-backed militias. Israel bombed it at least twice before. Syrian state news agency: "Syrian air defenses are intercepting the aggression targeting T4" (this usually means all missiles hit their targets)

    || الوكالة العربية السورية للأنباء - سانا مراسل سانا: الدفاعات الجوية تتصدى لعدوان يستهدف في ريف الشرقي
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  41. Jan 14

    New video from the Khaled ibn al-Walid Camp for "Cubs" shows arms training of minors in Idlib. More children have been joining rebel ranks in recent months. More on this:

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