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Rise in Syrian Refugee

artappraiser — Sun, 01 Sep 2019 01:07:57 +0000

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Rise in Syrian Refugee numbers arriving in Cyprus and headed to Greece. It seems like the uptick is being driven by the Turkish crackdown on Syrians and not the situation in Idlib, which is also bad, despite the recent cease-fire, which few believe will hold. https://t.co/2GyzqYgC0Z
— Joshua Landis (@joshua_landis) September 1, 2019

The U.S.'s "Operation

artappraiser — Sat, 31 Aug 2019 17:16:59 +0000

In reply to US strikes jihadists in Syria, 40 reported killed

The U.S.'s "Operation Inherent Resolve" has a twitter feed, this is their most recent tweet:

In the four months, the Coalition & our SDF partners detained more than 225 Daesh fighters. The SDF are capable & reliable partners that suffered thousands of casualties in the fight against Daesh. Now, they are maintaining stability & keeping Daesh from re-emerging in NE Syria. pic.twitter.com/1Wk40po8j2
— Special Ops Joint Task Force-OIR (Iraq/Syria) (@SOJTFOIR) August 31, 2019

Wikipedia explains who they are.

meanwhile just a bit south of

artappraiser — Sat, 31 Aug 2019 17:10:28 +0000

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meanwhile just a bit south of Idlib, there's no there there:

Drone footage of northern Hama in Syria after its capture by Syrian & Russian forces. It’s been fought over for 7 years. Utterly destroyed and devoid of life. pic.twitter.com/1Md10cLItY
— Liz Sly (@LizSly) August 30, 2019