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"This kid arrived in the illegally UK when he was 18, on one of those small boats that keep going down in the channel. My mum met him in a local cafe where he worked and slept in the store room, she took him in and kind of adopted him."
"I cannot remember the last time so many things have happened at once. The fall of Assad followed immediately by the invasion of Syria by Israel. Drones over NJ. The miraculous UHC shooter. It all feels real"
"Then the other day I met 3 guys from Syria and Algeria > 20 and not socialized in the West and they were the nicest guys ever."
"This is bad enough but the top countries they come from Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iran, Bangladesh and Syria, are all almost not at war."
"We often talked politics but she rarely gave a shit about American politics and was more focused on the Kurdish struggle in Turkey and Syria."
"There's people going around massacring minorities and recording it. I have seen footage of piles of corpses lining the streets, a child being executed, old men being beaten and then shot, people being forced to crawl on the ground and howl like dogs before being killed, a terrorist standing over the"
"The US invades Iran, enacts 'regime change' that ensures the country turns into another Iraq or Syria, another country is left shattered on the anvil of imperialism"
"On the war front, hundreds were killed this week in many separate incidents in places such as Syria, Iraq, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Mozambique, South Sudan, Niger, and the Congo."
"Rebels about to take the third major city in two weeks. The Russian embassy has just told its citizens to leave Syria. A shaky Middle Eastern great power client state collapses as fundamentalist rebels swiftly conquer vast swathes of territory."
"The Rojava project was so hopeful. Now government troops (guys who were in ISIS and Al Nusra fifteen minutes ago) just going on a rampage."
"The Syrian embassy there has swapped his flag with the rebel one and Putin is reportedly refusing to meet him. Russian media has stopped called his enemies "terrorists" and now prefers "armed opposition"."
"This is one of the biggest craziest CIA/MI6/Mossad regime changes ever. I just don't follow the details of anything anymore cause I know it's all orchestrated by the CIA."
"A few days ago they were POCs, now they're Privileged, truly blessed by the leadership of the Lion of Syria. (Seriously what the fuck, since when have Middle Easterners been called "white", do none of these children remember the 2000s when white people were losing their shit hating and fearing anybo"
"I have an uncle from Syria who always does it when the family all goes out to eat. It's very pleasant to get a little jolt after a meal at night. Leads to nice conversation."
"In Eurasian news, Russia and Turkey have reached a tentative halt and cease fire agreement in war-torn Syria."
"I've seen people unironically claim that Chicago is more dangerous than Syria. I've seen idiots claim that it's a shithole with zero redeeming qualities."
"I wish Hasbullah really was ruling Syria……. He's adorable"
"But this time they're invited. I will always hate the neocons and Wahhabis for what they did to Syria."
"The dad would visit every few years, but in the mid aughts he got an offer to head the central bank of Syria. Over the next several years he becomes more and more embedded in the Assad regime."
"The US destroyed many Russian allies in the Middle East and Russia couldn't do anything about it. THE ONLY TIME RUSSIA EVER SAID ENOUGH was Syria. And America got real pissed. They have been planning war ever since."
"Elsewhere around the globe, Ambazonion separatists massacred eight children at a school in Southern Cameroon, the Taliban committed numerous bloody atrocities throughout Afghanistan, US and Russian drone strikes killed at least 50 Arab individuals in Syria"
"There was some massacring and protesting done in Iraq and Syria, Iran seized a Korean (South) boat and started enriching Uranium, and another massacre also happened in nearby Pakistan."
"completely uncensored limbs blown off and everything all because i didn't want to practice my russian"
"its a shame the country is associated with civil war, religious extremism and refugees who struggle to integrate because syria has an interesting history they were the centre of many greek empires and the arab caliphate"
"On a personal level, I do feel for people who migrate from places like Syria or Afghanistan but it seems like absolute political suicide to be pro immigration from anywhere in the Islamic world."
"no criminal record, legal Syrian immigrant for maximum outrage, "in the name of jesus", baby stabbing."
"Really, it'll be more like Iraq or Syria seen as its really about the nordstream pipeline and has nothing to do with protecting poor downtrodden Ukraine from the evil tyrant dictator Putin."
"From what I can gather listening to some of TrueAnon and TAFS, he grew up in an upper crust Jewish family, attended Montessori, and then all of a sudden started doing heroin in high school, was homeless, and did all this cool shit in Syria?"
"Not much else to say, I've lived through a lot of historical events but a lot of them didn't really register when I was young. Assad's dad took power a year after Gadaffi, 2 years after the Ba'ath party, with Saddam as second-in-command, took over Iraq for the final time. Yet another middle-eastern "
"Even funnier when you realise Iraq, Syria and Lebanon are also on the Iranian side."
"President Donald Trump had a very constructive phone call with Syrian president and former Al Qaeda leader Al Shaara"
"He would be able to mansplain about the military, Iraq, Syria, and Afghanistan as well."
"then all of a sudden started doing heroin in high school, was homeless, and did all this cool shit in Syria?"
"Human rights were not real in Gaza, Bosnia, Chechnya, Myanmar, Xinjiang, Iraq, Syria, Sudan, or many other places where we have mutely watched mass atrocities take place"