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After the fall of Assad in Syria, what is the threat to Europe from Isis?
2 weeks ago

After the fall of Assad in Syria, what is the threat to Europe from Isis?

The Independent  

Four hundred years ago, Sir John Harington explained, “Treason doth never prosper. On Sunday, Sir John Sawers – Tony Blair’s guru in the run-up to the Iraq War, as well as MI6’s boss – led the choir of Whitehall’s most far-sighted mandarins singing the praises of Al Jolani as “the leader of a liberation movement, not a terrorist organisation”; and …

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Opinion | Assad’s Syria Was Brutal. Will What Comes Next Be Better?
2 weeks, 1 day ago

Opinion | Assad’s Syria Was Brutal. Will What Comes Next Be Better?

New York Times  

It is hard not to rejoice while watching images of ecstatic Syrians toppling statues from the regime of the deposed dictator Bashar al-Assad and hearing the shouts of joy of prisoners, many of whom may have been tortured and starved, released from his dungeons. Mr. al-Assad’s Syria was brutal for the regime’s opponents, and 13 years of civil war and …

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Syrian rebel leader Jolani’s victory speech holds a message for Iran – and for Trump and Israel too
2 weeks, 2 days ago

Syrian rebel leader Jolani’s victory speech holds a message for Iran – and for Trump and Israel too

CNN  

CNN — Abu Mohammad al-Jolani’s road to Damascus has been long. It is no surprise that the Islamist rebel chose Damascus’s venerated Umayyad Mosque – not a TV studio, nor newly absented presidential palace, but a place of towering religious significance, which at 1,300 years old is one of the world’s most ancient mosques – to deliver that message. “This …

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Syria's rebel-in-chief wants to be a politician, not a rebel
2 weeks, 4 days ago

Syria's rebel-in-chief wants to be a politician, not a rebel

Firstpost  

Abu Mohammed al-Jolani, the leader of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, wants the world to believe the group has really cut off its jihadist roots, but there are doubts whether the group has really given up its terrorist ways to be a purely political opposition to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad Abu Muhammed al-Jolani, the leader of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, speaks during a …

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