#Raqqa

empire babies everywhere

influensopher

From @daviddoel calling for troops to remain in Syria as human shields to @BlackSocialists urging further US military intervention on behalf of Syrian Kurds to this in Oakland - there

Brian Castner

Brian_Castner

I know I'm a few days late to this, but just read @Anand_Gopal_'s thought-provoking piece on America's views of the laws of war and, well, a few things... 1/https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/12/21/americas-war-on-syrian-ci

Hassan Hassan

hxhassan

Big news -- almost certainly true, but somehow not yet announced by the United States:A prominent ISIS leader (so prominent he was strongly suspected be the yet unconfirmed new ISIS

Meghan Bodette

_____mjb

Starting this today. Will post commentary as I go. Here’s how Ocalan and PKK are introduced. Straightforward and fair enough. The story about his sister’s marriage is something that comes

@Suriyak

Suriyakmaps

With the beginning of summer, escalation in Syria begins again. The first reason is the increase of insurgence #ISIS activity in the Syrian desert & rebel groups in #Daraa governorate,

Dr. Jessica Goudeau

jessica_goudeau

I love reading other people's year-end "here's what I published" threads, but I want to do mine a little differently. This is a "what we published" thread about writers I

Desertup

Desertup

Avant même le début de l'opération anti terroriste de la #Turquie au nord de la #Syrie contre la milice marxiste kurde #PKK classée terroriste, une grande opération de propagande a

Ali Y. Al-Baroodi

AliBaroodi

1Mosul MovieI watched the movie & was emotinally moved. I have been a movie fan since the 1990s. I dig through Hollywood history & look for blockbusters. I learn a

Azzad Alsalem

AzzatAlsaleem

Sunni neighbors started killing Yezidis after refusing convert to Islam.10,000 Yezidis were killed and 7000 were enslaved after refusing convert to Islam.3000 are still missing.104 victims are buried today #ضحايا_كوجو

Nuno Tiago Pinto

ntpinto23

Exclusivo @revistaSABADO e @telegraaf https://www.sabado.pt/portugal/detalhe/jihadista-luso-descendente-a-caminho-da-europa?utm_medium=Social via @revistaSABADO Ângela Barreto chegou na 2ª feira a Istambul com o filho. Dirigiu-se ao consu

Jean-Marc Lafon

JM_Lafon

1/Les gens qui travaillent ont tous émis de vives réserves sur le haut niveau décisionnaire de combattants non-étatiques en Syrie et de cadres subalternes en Irak sur les feux d'appui

Joshua Landis

joshua_landis

Jeffrey on US policyWe’ve ratcheted up isolation & sanctions on Assad, we’ve held the line on no reconstruction. Syria's desperate You see what’s happened to the Syrian Lira, you see

Titus

TitusNation

Tomorrow. That word has never felt so heavy. When Trump was announced as the winner in 2016, my lovely wife was standing in front of the TV like she wanted

Hassan Hassan

hxhassan

Details I obtained about the jihadist infighting in northwestern Syria, and about Ansar al-Islam's leadership and members (that ancient pre-ISIS Iraqi jihadi group.)I checked with a few knowledgeable sources in

Dr. Stephennie Mulder

stephenniem

This semester in my Arts of Islam survey, I decided to scrap the research paper and have students collaborate to re-write @Wikipedia articles. It ended up better than I could

Annia Ciezadlo

annia

So the New York Times finally retracted #Caliphate.It's not enough. The problem goes much deeper than one lying source, one tainted podcast, one horrible reporter.We need to take a hard

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