🇺🇸🇸🇾 - US Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard calls out HTS jihadists; openly saying Syria is under the control of an Al Qaeda affiliate.
The HTS rebrand will not last long. So far, the Trump administration, Israel, Iran, and to a lesser extent the Shiite-led Iraqi government, despite having different agendas are all major opponents of the HTS regime. The SDF and other non-state actors also pose threat to HTS as do many within its ranks. An Islamic State resurgence is immanent.
HTS only has Turkey Russia and Saudi to fall back on. Saudi is not a reliable ally. As for Turkey its economy is frankly in the gutter and its project will not last long.
🇺🇸🇸🇾 - US Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard calls out HTS jihadists; openly saying Syria is under the control of an Al Qaeda affiliate.
The HTS rebrand will not last long. So far, the Trump administration, Israel, Iran, and to a lesser extent the Shiite-led Iraqi government, despite having different agendas are all major opponents of the HTS regime. The SDF and other non-state actors also pose threat to HTS as do many within its ranks. An Islamic State resurgence is immanent.
HTS only has Turkey Russia and Saudi to fall back on. Saudi is not a reliable ally. As for Turkey its economy is frankly in the gutter and its project will not last long.
Now safely in France with his spouse and three of his children, Kliuchnikov scrolls through Telegram to learn about the devastation happening in his home country. The regulator said it had received information that messages containing stock tips and other investment advice with respect to selected listed companies are being widely circulated through websites and social media platforms such as Telegram, Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram. Pavel Durov, Telegram's CEO, is known as "the Russian Mark Zuckerberg," for co-founding VKontakte, which is Russian for "in touch," a Facebook imitator that became the country's most popular social networking site. "And that set off kind of a battle royale for control of the platform that Durov eventually lost," said Nathalie Maréchal of the Washington advocacy group Ranking Digital Rights. This ability to mix the public and the private, as well as the ability to use bots to engage with users has proved to be problematic. In early 2021, a database selling phone numbers pulled from Facebook was selling numbers for $20 per lookup. Similarly, security researchers found a network of deepfake bots on the platform that were generating images of people submitted by users to create non-consensual imagery, some of which involved children.
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