https://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/wireStory/us-leaving-cultural-agency-unesco-2-years-after-123951652 He also left after Obama cut funding. The US last rejoined UNESCO in 2023 under Biden

They did a very good job, many of the OSINT work goes unreported. Example: people like All Eyes on Wagner, Casus Belli, Sonarrow, Debunk Cafe have been tracking Russian trafficking yellow cake out of Niger when most news outlets care fuck all about Africa.

Defo. Meta also continues to profit from Russian propaganda, enabled the Rohingya genocide in Myanmar, etc

What in the whatabotism is this? There are scholars and posters that can focus on specific regions. I have deep knowledge about Sahel, Syria, and Ukraine, and I have posted credible articles about said regions and INDOPAC. I can talk about misinformation by a number of actors surrounding the Gaza war but I am not as proficient in the topic as some of my acquaintances are and in general I don't like to believe popular vote based forums are conducive to any kind of appropriate discussion on the topic. I don't understand the anti-scientific combativeness in your attitude, do all scientists have to cover all topics? I can also see your comment history but I think this is not the place for such a discussion. I do believe in highlighting Africa as a region that is deeply ignored despite JNIM and ISWAP causing more that 10x the deaths of all other terrorism in the world combined, Sudan war, etc.

Yes, I do OSINT and fact-check for Syria and this is a very positive development. Still I want to underline that this document doesn't detail anything about Kurdish language courses in schools. Rn Kurdish is taught 2h a week. Another example Syria's army is still called its Assadist predecessor SAA - Syrian Arab Army. This might change and this document is a positive step towards that. Also the gov recognized Norwuz as a national holiday. Rn Mazloum Abdi the leader of SDF also announced it is leaving to east bank of the river. This is very good for Kurds and Syrians in general.

I also want to underline that this is just the next step of a series of diplomatic efforts by the US and France to make sure Syria is united, strong, and respects the rights of minorities. Before that you had March 10 agreement, etc. The details of what Sharaa signed now were agreed upon in October 2025.

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Ukraine helped the secular Tuareg rebels against the Malian government. https://archive.ph/1Qbm0 Rn JNIM the local al-Qaeda group is talking with the Tuaregs on the possibility of fighting in a united front. I am just joking that Zelenskyy is the god emperor mastermind that is conducting all of this, just like when people joked that he ordered Syria to be free. Don't worry little to nobody cares about the region, even tho North Africa is NATO's southern flank and a lot of migration and drugs are being weaponized by russia through the Sahel.

Turkey is starting to replace russia in the AES( Mali, Burkina Faso, Niger), it is a big partner of Sudan, but yeah recently RU shipped weapons to Madagascar

New update: Syria's ( Kurdish) Education minister promised to fast track Kurdish language education. Full text below.

Minister of Education and Higher Education Muhammad Abdul Rahman Turko:

📌 In a pivotal national moment, the issuance of Decree No. 13 of 2026 by His Excellency the President of the Republic represents a new affirmation that Syria, with its ancient history and civilizational mission, is built upon the diversity of its people and its unity is solidified through respect for their cultural and linguistic identities within an inclusive national framework that excludes no one and marginalizes no component.

📌 The approval of teaching the Kurdish language in public schools, as stipulated by the decree, constitutes an advanced step in strengthening the values of equal citizenship and entrenching the cultural rights of Kurdish citizens as an integral part of the Syrian national fabric, and a tangible contribution to preserving cultural diversity as one of the sources of the civilizational and social richness of the Syrian state, and a clear embodiment of the state's commitment to the educational and cultural rights of its citizens without discrimination or exclusion.

📌 Based on our national and educational responsibility, we affirm in the Ministry of Education and Higher Education that we will proceed to prepare the necessary executive instructions and organizational decisions to implement the provisions of this decree in the shortest possible time, ensuring its immediate entry into actual implementation in everything related to the ministry's work, while taking into account established educational principles and academic standards, and guaranteeing a balanced and disciplined application that achieves the desired national and humanitarian goal.

📌 We believe that the Syrian school will remain the primary incubator for societal unity, and that education is the truest bridge for entrenching understanding, deepening national belonging, and building generations confident in their identity, proud of their diversity, and steadfast in the unity of their homeland in land and people.

📌 We pledge that our national schools will remain a space of belonging, not exclusion; a platform of justice, not discrimination; and a tool for preserving diversity to fortify unity among the people of this homeland, and a bridge of love that connects all Syrians—heart and soul, form and content.

Not to mention them massacring the Fulani civilians, paying propagandists to call for a genocide of the Fulani, transporting YELLOW CAKE through jihadist territory, etc

The letters are fuzzy because of the hot air. The photo was taken by Task_Force23/TF 23 Photo.

<3 Just the Wojakified version of the Wheel of Life

The musician needs money to cool his room.

Update: Just found out that this Libyan poster had a similar idea

Her analysis is very flat in that regard also because the USSR had sattelite states, but in general I think it is useful in the sense that it underlines that the US is no longer ahead of China. Her other articles on the topic are similar to the FA article. She doesn't go into the details but the structure of the task the military of China and US seeks to fill is different: China has to fight US, US protects water ways, helps defend Europe, etc. which is a big factor in the military strategic balance between the two. The methodology can be found here https://direct.mit.edu/isec/article/49/2/7/125214/Back-to-Bipolarity-How-China-s-Rise-Transformed

To add to that in general they need to reduce the animation speed from clicking buttons. Things like just changing a deck or opening a pack feel slow.

Please take your schizopopscislopbrained stuff out of the post. JNIM have been a thing for a decade and what is notable is that the US is speaking about the group for the first time when news about Africa are non-existent in media.

Nice composition!

tldr: Possibly, the diplomatic push is mostly US-France.

US and France started all of this Turkey would like PKK/YPG dealt with asap. Ofc even if STG hated Kurds they would push for this but for example 20% of new officer graduates in Aleppo are Kurds. SDF wanted a deal like what Barzani has in Iraq but Syria rejected it ( Turkey too) bcs of PKK/YPG. So far they haven't talked about the same rights for Armenians, Assyrians, Greeks, etc. Their communities are smaller and in mixed areas so I doubt they would get the same legal rights as Kurds like in the case of language learning in school. Fidan the FM of Turkey and STG have been pushing the line "we love Kurds we just hate PKK" to try to chip away at SDF power so that people flip over. Still I think progress is being made but nobody can predict the future of course. I think it looks promising.

If you look at the way the government reacted to the massacres committed there is progress. There was an immense number of warcrimes committed on the coast mostly by ex-SNA( Turkish proxy) units, 1.4k dead, after that Syria started centralizing the military( still people like Abu Amsha have more autonomy, he is also well liked by Ankara despite ethnically cleansing Kurds in Afrin). Syria also embedded police units to run after the military ones in order to prevent war crimes from happening even before the events in the south. Israel bombed the space between the primary military units and the supporting ones tho and SAA units were seen assaulting civilians. For Sheikh Maqsoud, so far we have footage of only 4 wacrimes( mistreatment of POW) 2 of which of snipers , 1 of which w/ suicide belt. Also they made sure to use mostly ex-HTS, only 1 ex-SNA unit ( 72nd) was used. Compare that to 1.4k civilians killed on the coast.

If this deal builds towards a further SDF integration it would be far better not only for Kurds, Syrians in general human rights wise, but also al-Sharaa will have a counter to Abu Amsha and ex-SNA units that are loved by Turkey. If anything al-Sharaa is bringing Syria back in the Arab fold and trying to juggle alliances and influences so that he can govern. If STG builds good institutions in the future or if it can survive remains to be seen.