Aymenn Jawad Al-Tamimi
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The Lull in the Attacks Against U.S. Forces in Iraq and Syria: Overview and Analysis

March 7, 2024

In a recent feature item on the kidnapping of Israeli-Russian researcher Elizabeth Tsurkov in Iraq, ABC News counted more than 170 attacks on U.S. forces in Iraq, Syria and Jordan (the Jordan incident being the one that killed three U.S. personnel) since the start of the war between Israel and Hamas on 7 October. In so far as these attacks have been claimed and identified, the vast majority if not all of them can be traced to Iranian-backed armed groups operating in Iraq, in particular the groups operating under the umbrella of the 'Islamic Resistance in Iraq' (Kata'ib Hezbollah, Kata'ib Sayyid al-Shuhada', Harakat al-Nujaba' and Ansar Allah al-Awfiya').

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The Protests in al-Suwayda' Six Months Later: Interview

March 6, 2024 at 12:00 pm

In the primarily Druze province of al-Suwayda' in southern Syria, protests demanding political change have been occurring on almost a daily basis for more than six months now. I myself have been skeptical from the outset about whether they matter in the bigger picture, and still believe that this assessment holds. But what is the current status of the protests? Do they still have the same momentum? And what is their future direction? What are some of the different ideas espoused about the future of Syria and al-Suwayda' in the protests? Does the 'autonomous administration' of the U.S.-supported Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) provide a model? What about talk of turning towards armed rebellion?

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The Iraq Civil Postal Regulations (1918)

March 6, 2024

The following rare book sets out the Iraq Civil Postal Regulations, published at Baghdad in 1918 by the British forces that were occupying the city following its capture from the Ottoman Empire in the previous year. I have no particular comment to make on these documents and publish them here as a matter of archival work and historical interest.

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https://www.aymennaltamimi.com/p/the-iraq-civil-postal-regulations

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Islamic State Reports on Operations in Mozambique: Translation and Overview

February 29, 2024

For the Islamic State, the group's "Mozambique province" has propaganda value as an illustration of the group's global reach despite the loss of its territorial caliphate in Iraq and Syria. But the Islamic State's far-flung affiliates in Mozambique and elsewhere are not tied to the Islamic State for reasons divorced from the group's ideology. Rather, the ideology is an integral part of the bond, and one aspect of that ideology is the notion of waging war on Christians so long as they are Christians who do not submit to the dhimmi pact or convert to Islam, regardless of 'grievances' like oppression of Muslims by Christians. This pride in persecution of Christians is constantly emphasised in the propaganda, as illustrated in these reports from the most recent issue of the group's al-Naba' newsletter (issued last Thursday) with a report and infographic regarding Mozambique, which I translate below.

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Anti-Jewish Polemic: Julian of Toledo's 'Concerning the Proof of the Sixth Age' (III)

February 21, 2024

[For the prior two books of 'Concerning the Proof of the Sixth Age', see here and here].

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