Abdelbasset Yabrag

[Abdelbasset Yabrag @yabrag]

@zamaleksun @mo_ghazzzzal

[Abdelbasset Yabrag @yabrag]

@PubWanghaf @mo_ghazzzzal

[Abdelbasset Yabrag @yabrag]

@ahfc90 @mo_ghazzzzal اشتقنا لهل الخرايط 😁

[Aimen Dean @AimenDean]

The Tribal Truth vs. the OSINT Clowns

It’s honestly laughable how deep the ignorance runs across this platform, especially from self-declared OSINT experts and their fan clubs. And most astonishingly, it often comes from Israelis who should know the region better. Yet, here they are - equating the Arab tribes with ISIS and Al-Qaeda.

Let me offer a history lesson, free of charge.

1. The Tribes That Crushed Al-Qaeda

The tribal awakening in Iraq - specifically in Anbar and Mosul - did more to dismantle Al-Qaeda than any external force. Why? Because Al-Qaeda sent suicide bombers into the majlis - the sacred gathering places of tribal elders. That was a red line.

The result?
•Over 80,000 tribal fighters rose up in arms.
•Between 2007 and 2009, they killed an estimated 6,000 Al-Qaeda members.
•They shattered Zarqawi’s legacy and broke the back of AQI.

So no, the tribes weren’t “harboring” jihadists. They were burying them.

2. ISIS Avoided the Tribes - Until They Didn’t

When ISIS reemerged due to Assad’s butchery in Syria, they remembered what happened in Iraq. From 2011 onward, they actively avoided conflict with the tribes. They knew exactly what would happen.

Until 2014.

That year, over oil fields, they massacred 700 members of the Shaitat tribe in Deir ez-Zor. What followed was not just revenge - it was obliteration.
•The Shaitat, alongside allied tribes like Al-Aqedat, Al-Baghara, and Dulaim, formed another tribal coalition - 70,000 strong.
•By 2019, the Shaitat alone had reportedly killed over 1,500 ISIS members.
•In total, tribal forces are estimated to have killed 7,000 ISIS fighters and captured 3,000 more, handing them over to the SDF or Iraqi government.

These weren’t jihadist safe havens. These were jihadist graveyards.

3. President al-Shar’a: From Jihadist to Jihadism’s Undoing

Then there’s the favorite bogeyman of the OSINT crowd: Joulani, now President Ahmad al-Shar’a of Syria.

Yes, he was once aligned with Al-Qaeda - but facts matter:
•In 2013, he broke with ISIS and actively weakened them.
•He then aligned with Turkey, passed critical intel to the international coalition, and helped facilitate airstrikes against ISIS leadership.
•By 2016, he formally severed ties with Al-Qaeda.
•After that, drone strikes started raining down on AQ-linked operatives from Afghanistan. Many suspect al-Shar’a himself helped expose them.

So call him what you want - but know this: ISIS fears him, and Al-Qaeda loathes him.

4. Sunni Self-Determination ≠ Global Jihadism

What we’re seeing now isn’t the rise of global jihad - it’s tribal Sunni self-defense. It’s local insurgency, born of a power vacuum and fueled by years of marginalization, not some global caliphate fantasy.

But of course, that doesn’t stop Western analysts and their pro-Israel echo chambers from labeling every Sunni fighter a “jihadist.” As if Sunni Muslims aren’t allowed to have any rules of war, any cause, or any legitimate grievance without being called terrorists.

Here’s a thought: jihad is part of Islam. Get over it. You may not like it, but it’s the religious-legal default in wartime for practicing Muslims. That doesn’t make every fighter an ISIS sympathizer.

5. A Final Word for the Willfully Ignorant

So to all the keyboard commandos, OSINT influencers, and pseudo-analysts who think labeling every Sunni tribal fighter “ISIS” makes you sound smart, pick a wall. Any wall. Preferably the thickest one in your house. Then, as we say in Arabic, bang your head against it until some history knocks its way in.

Because the reality is simple:

The tribes you’re watching now did not join ISIS.
They destroyed ISIS.
They hunted Al-Qaeda, and they crushed it.
They are not global jihadists.
They are the nightmares of jihadists - and any rogue militias that threaten them

Deal with it.

[Qalaat Al Mudiq @QalaatAlMudiq]

#Syria: the Najha mass-grave bears witness to Assad's Regime industrial-scale killings in #Damascus prisons.

And it began as early as the summer of 2011.

Phase 1: Unmarked Graves (2011–2012):

- Hundreds of unmarked graves filled with multiple bodies.

Phase 2: Pits (2012–2018):

- Bodies were dumped into pits directly from trucks.

In one case, as bodies overflowed from a pit, a regime officer told a bulldozer driver: “Push them down, or I’ll put you with them.”

Phase 3: Trenches (2018–2024):

- Trenches as long as 91 meters were dug to hold hundreds of bodies.

- These trenches were prepared months in advance.

Full report 👇
https://t.co/5SMOIrRw8I

[ماجد عبد النور @Magedabdelnour1]

رتل ضخم من مهجري الخيام العائدين إلى ديارهم بعد رحلة طويلة من الشقاء والقهر. يذكرني هذا الموقف بشتاء عام ٢٠٢٠ حين تكدست طوابير المهجرين على طريق ادلب باب الهوى برتل بلغ عشرات الكيلومترات بعشرات آلاف البشر الهائمين على وجوههم الباكية عيونهم بمعنويات منهارة ووجوه رسم عليها القهر خرائطه، بعد أن خسرنا حينها مساحات واسعة من ريفي حلب وإدلب.
كانت من أقسى الأيام وأشدها مرارة. أذكر في أحد الأيام كنت ذاهباً إلى الجامعة بعكس أرتال المهجرين فلم أستطع أن أُكمل طريقي فركنت الدراجة النارية على الرصيف وجلست أبكي حتى خارت قواي عن آخرها.
كان مخيمنا قبل ذلك وحيداً بين الجبال وماهي إلا أيام حتى صار محيطنا مدناً كاملة من القماش الأبيض، ضاعت معالم الجبال وغطتها الخيام والبشر وبدأت رحلة أخرى من قهر لا يوصف .
ما أجمل الدنيا حين تدور وما أروع المظلوم حين يُنصَفْ.

[Celine Kasem @celinekasem]

The reversing of trauma that this is doing for millions, needs to be studied.

[Pseudonymous Rami @AnonymousSyria]

لا أدري ما سيحدث غداً، كل ما أعرفه أني لن أعيش في الذل أبدا، أتمنى الخير لي ولوطني ولكل السوريين تصبحون على وطن فقدناه #Syria سوريا يا قلبي

[Oz Katerji @OzKaterji]

Ukraine survived Hitler and Stalin, so you had better believe it will survive Trump and Putin too.

Слава Україні.

[Oz Katerji @OzKaterji]

For context, this all-female choir was repeatedly used by the Assad regime as a propaganda tool. Today, their singers are weeping as they sing a song written by one of Syria’s most famous revolutionaries, embracing his own martyrdom before he was tragically slain.

[Ragıp Soylu @ragipsoylu]

11 days that shook the world

[وائل عبد العزيز | Wael Abdulaziz @waelwanne]

حماه اليوم تحتفل بنصر طال انتظاره..

أيها العالم لقد أسقطنا الأسد..

[Omar Kasir @OmarKasir]

1/3 في إحدى الصور التي عثر عليها في قصور بشار الأسد، يظهر "الرئيس الفار" واقفاً إلى جانب عدد من أصدقائه / أقربائه، أحدهم ابن خاله إيهاب مخلوف الذي يرتدي قميصاً عليه هذه الصورة.

[Abdelbasset Yabrag @yabrag]

@fadi0bed @mo_ghazzzzal

[Charles Lister @Charles_Lister]

This had been rumored, but never documented — but now we know.

This is the “iron press,” used to crush #Sednaya prisoners to death & ease the disposal of bodies. There is no evil #Assad’s regime didn’t embrace.

[Abdelbasset Yabrag @yabrag]

@RevTamam @mo_ghazzzzal

[Hassan I. Hassan @hxhassan]

If you are to watch one thing about the Assad regime, make it this 4:20 minutes.

Note: The rebels found this little kid in the same prison he’s talking about.

[Thomas van Linge @ThomasVLinge]

The Syrian Revolution.

How it started:
How it finished:

[Thomas van Linge @ThomasVLinge]

Rebels entering a Alawite city. For a decade the experts, analysts, advisors, diplomats assured us all that should it happen, it would become a bloodbath. Entire Syria policies were build around this notion.

Now that the day has come, the people basically fall into their arms.

[المحجوب بالسعودية عمر بن عبدالعزيز @oamaz7]

هذه التغريدة أريدها مرجعا لمقاطع عودة المهجرين وتحرير المعتقلين وعودتهم لذويهم، اللي عنده مقطع يشاركه ليعرف العالم إجرام هؤلاء

وأنا سأبدأ

https://t.co/SBfskp8rcd