[GUEST ACCESS MODE: Data is scrambled or limited to provide examples. Make requests using your API key to unlock full data. Check https://lunarcrush.ai/auth for authentication information.] #  @ThomasVLinge Thomas van Linge Siarhei Tsikhanouski, a prominent Belarusian opposition figure, has been released from prison and reunited with his wife in Lithuania after five years. He was a key figure in the Belarusian opposition and his release is a significant development in the country's politics. This event marks a rare positive note in a region filled with conflict and turmoil. ### Engagements: XXXXXX [#](/creator/twitter::1077181999/interactions)  - X Week XXXXXXXXX +84% - X Month XXXXXXXXX +88% - X Months XXXXXXXXXX -XX% - X Year XXXXXXXXXX +171% ### Mentions: XX [#](/creator/twitter::1077181999/posts_active)  - X Week XX +40% - X Month XXX +41% - X Months XXX -XX% - X Year XXXXX +48% ### Followers: XXXXXXX [#](/creator/twitter::1077181999/followers)  - X Week XXXXXXX +0.13% - X Month XXXXXXX +0.89% - X Months XXXXXXX +3.30% - X Year XXXXXXX +23% ### CreatorRank: XXXXXXX [#](/creator/twitter::1077181999/influencer_rank)  ### Social Influence [#](/creator/twitter::1077181999/influence) --- **Social category influence** [countries](/list/countries) XXXXX% [finance](/list/finance) XXXX% [travel destinations](/list/travel-destinations) XXXX% **Social topic influence** [syria](/topic/syria) #329, [druze](/topic/druze) #550, [myanmar](/topic/myanmar) #244, [israel](/topic/israel) 4.76%, [women](/topic/women) 3.57%, [iran](/topic/iran) 2.38%, [stg](/topic/stg) 2.38%, [putin](/topic/putin) 2.38%, [countries](/topic/countries) 2.38%, [burkina faso](/topic/burkina-faso) XXXX% **Top accounts mentioned or mentioned by** [@stpizzasteve](/creator/undefined) [@aws_albdewy](/creator/undefined) [@daringamerican2](/creator/undefined) [@karimfranceschi](/creator/undefined) [@japoesdekok](/creator/undefined) [@tuchman_or](/creator/undefined) [@kenesarykazakh](/creator/undefined) [@cannibal1000](/creator/undefined) [@hrhuffinstuff69](/creator/undefined) [@webh4cker](/creator/undefined) [@inghimasi2024](/creator/undefined) [@khalidintel](/creator/undefined) [@lorenzifix](/creator/undefined) [@cecild84](/creator/undefined) [@osdiplomacynet](/creator/undefined) [@barronjakob](/creator/undefined) [@osintwarfare](/creator/undefined) [@yaakovjer](/creator/undefined) [@islamatics](/creator/undefined) [@deadlyk52946158](/creator/undefined) ### Top Social Posts [#](/creator/twitter::1077181999/posts) --- Top posts by engagements in the last XX hours "Syria BREAKING: Israeli strikes once again hit the Ministry of Defense in the center of Damascus. Caught live on television"  [@ThomasVLinge](/creator/x/ThomasVLinge) on [X](/post/tweet/1945457959162511741) 2025-07-16 12:18:16 UTC 186.4K followers, 37.5K engagements "Myanmar : PDF resistance fighters raise their flag at a junta camp in the Shwebo township which they captured earlier this week"  [@ThomasVLinge](/creator/x/ThomasVLinge) on [X](/post/tweet/1943649350330073170) 2025-07-11 12:31:31 UTC 186.4K followers, 17.8K engagements "It will be a very painful experience for Syrians to see that those who were most vocal about government atrocities against Druze will be completely silent deny or even justify when similar atrocities are being committed against Sunni Bedouin by the Druze gunmen"  [@ThomasVLinge](/creator/x/ThomasVLinge) on [X](/post/tweet/1945818806237929512) 2025-07-17 12:12:09 UTC 186.4K followers, 75.7K engagements "The fact that Pahlavi needed to resort to AI to make a video of him being welcomed back in Iran by the masses shows you all you need to know about his actual popularity"  [@ThomasVLinge](/creator/x/ThomasVLinge) on [X](/post/tweet/1940431003308458453) 2025-07-02 15:22:57 UTC 186.4K followers, 130.4K engagements "MAP UPDATE: the situation in Myanmar as of 01/07/2025. In the month of June heavy fighting was ongoing in several regions on the country. In Bago and Karen the resistance took out couple of junta outposts while in Shan state the regime is slowly advancing against the TNLA"  [@ThomasVLinge](/creator/x/ThomasVLinge) on [X](/post/tweet/1940020795620598010) 2025-07-01 12:12:56 UTC 186.4K followers, 30.3K engagements "Syrians are cleaning the streets of Damascus following Israeli attacks. A nation that survived XX years of war and XX years of the Assad regime will have no problem overcoming Israeli strikes as well"  [@ThomasVLinge](/creator/x/ThomasVLinge) on [X](/post/tweet/1945591548239831213) 2025-07-16 21:09:07 UTC 186.4K followers, 53.7K engagements "Syria: another video of brutal atrocities against Druze men has appeared online. The video shows X Druze men being led to a balcony in the town of al-Majdal in Suwayda by STG forces. Once there they're forced to climb over the railing and shot as they do falling to their death"  [@ThomasVLinge](/creator/x/ThomasVLinge) on [X](/post/tweet/1946333028541776112) 2025-07-18 22:15:29 UTC 186.4K followers, 28.7K engagements "Abby used to work for a Russian media channel during the Donbas war never condemned the mass murders committed by Assad and Putin and made propaganda reports for Maduro as Venezuelan protesters were being killed in the streets on a daily basis"  [@ThomasVLinge](/creator/x/ThomasVLinge) on [X](/post/tweet/1943255855656268173) 2025-07-10 10:27:54 UTC 186.4K followers, 129.5K engagements "Ah to be young and crush one of the most militarized regimes in all of Asia"  [@ThomasVLinge](/creator/x/ThomasVLinge) on [X](/post/tweet/1940895098012946519) 2025-07-03 22:07:06 UTC 186.4K followers, 600K engagements "As today painfully shows again the many speeches statements and meetings about tolerance diversity and inclusion at the political top mean very little if these principles are not enforced in the lower ranks of the military. In the Syrian military sectarianism fundamentalism and humiliation of minorities remain very normalized if not the dominant narrative. And it is exactly at this level where the future of Syria's diversity and cohabitation is being shaped and decided"  [@ThomasVLinge](/creator/x/ThomasVLinge) on [X](/post/tweet/1945120904867877077) 2025-07-15 13:58:56 UTC 186.4K followers, 46.6K engagements "Syrians in Damascus holding a silent protest against the war in Suwayda. People like this are the reason not to give up on Syria"  [@ThomasVLinge](/creator/x/ThomasVLinge) on [X](/post/tweet/1945518186230587470) 2025-07-16 16:17:36 UTC 186.5K followers, 31.7K engagements "Rule of thumb when it comes to Burkina Faso : Whenever Traore makes an announcement like this it means he has lost another town to the jihadists and is saying these things to put up a smokescreen to hide his military incompetence"  [@ThomasVLinge](/creator/x/ThomasVLinge) on [X](/post/tweet/1942936304746148090) 2025-07-09 13:18:07 UTC 186.4K followers, 831.6K engagements ""terrorist Bedouin tribe members" More genocidal language from the usual suspects"  [@ThomasVLinge](/creator/x/ThomasVLinge) on [X](/post/tweet/1945826063503806677) 2025-07-17 12:40:59 UTC 186.4K followers, 124.1K engagements "Syria: Druze Sheikh Yusuf Jerboa has confirmed a ceasefire has been reached between the Syrian government and those Druze factions that were already in negotiations until yesterday. This once again leaves Hikmat al-Hijri as the only outlier it's now up to other Druze factions to deal with him"  [@ThomasVLinge](/creator/x/ThomasVLinge) on [X](/post/tweet/1945494642935382213) 2025-07-16 14:44:03 UTC 186.4K followers, 60K engagements "Syria: more and more gruesome details are coming out of the massacres that have taken place in the city of Suwayda. This one at a family home in the city where XX people including X women and girls were killed"  [@ThomasVLinge](/creator/x/ThomasVLinge) on [X](/post/tweet/1945857298712195253) 2025-07-17 14:45:06 UTC 186.4K followers, 32.3K engagements "Syria: anti-government protests have erupted in the Druze district of Jaramana in Damascus as the STG continues it's military operations in Suwayda under heavy Israeli bombardments. Even if in the end the government will seize Suwayda it will have lost the Druze"  [@ThomasVLinge](/creator/x/ThomasVLinge) on [X](/post/tweet/1945442024376639579) 2025-07-16 11:14:57 UTC 186.4K followers, 23.5K engagements "Syria: SANA reports a ceasefire has been reached in Suwayda without providing much details on what the ceasefire entails. Hopefully the reports and true and more details will become known soon"  [@ThomasVLinge](/creator/x/ThomasVLinge) on [X](/post/tweet/1945491188213072322) 2025-07-16 14:30:19 UTC 186.4K followers, 55.9K engagements "Despite what naive YouTubers like Binsky might tell you Iran is not a safe country to travel to. You'll most likely be kidnapped and held for months possibly years until you're exchanged for an actual criminal. DO NOT TRAVEL TO IRAN"  [@ThomasVLinge](/creator/x/ThomasVLinge) on [X](/post/tweet/1943373384718651546) 2025-07-10 18:14:55 UTC 186.5K followers, 47.4K engagements "Horrific scenes in northern Myanmar . A junta warplane bombed a Buddhist monastery in the Sagaing Township as many villagers were taking shelter there. At least XX civilians are confirmed to have been killed in the attack women and children included"  [@ThomasVLinge](/creator/x/ThomasVLinge) on [X](/post/tweet/1943629891905487146) 2025-07-11 11:14:11 UTC 186.4K followers, 29.9K engagements "Al-Sharaa needs to stop this madness or he'll risk everything the interim government has sought to build these past seven months. Syria"  [@ThomasVLinge](/creator/x/ThomasVLinge) on [X](/post/tweet/1945461851703083090) 2025-07-16 12:33:45 UTC 186.4K followers, 136K engagements "Syria: Druze elders restore the Syrian flag in the Jaramana neighborhood of Damascus after a group of protesters had taken it down earlier in the day"  [@ThomasVLinge](/creator/x/ThomasVLinge) on [X](/post/tweet/1945520378773745774) 2025-07-16 16:26:18 UTC 186.4K followers, 50.5K engagements "Note that Israel will be happy to stand by and watch as Bedouin tribesmen invade Suwayda and slaughter more Druze people. Israel's goal with the bombardments was never to protect the Druze only to destabilize Syria further. Something it sadly succeeded in"  [@ThomasVLinge](/creator/x/ThomasVLinge) on [X](/post/tweet/1945995378500723158) 2025-07-17 23:53:47 UTC 186.4K followers, 41.4K engagements "Whether you've build your identity around hostility to Israel like the Houthis or sought peace through diplomacy for months like Syria Israel will bomb you all the same. A message which will not go unnoticed by countries like Jordan and Egypt. At peace with Israel now but as soon as weaknesses appear in these countries Israel will not hesitate to exploit them"  [@ThomasVLinge](/creator/x/ThomasVLinge) on [X](/post/tweet/1945483167097397583) 2025-07-16 13:58:27 UTC 186.4K followers, 53K engagements "Pro-Traore disinformation account shares claim that XX% of Burkina Faso has access to electricity under Traore junta. When asked about a source in the comment shares a factsheet by the ADBG which says that in reality only XX% has access with the GOAL of increasing that number to XX% by 2028"  [@ThomasVLinge](/creator/x/ThomasVLinge) on [X](/post/tweet/1944520054336340120) 2025-07-13 22:11:23 UTC 186.4K followers, 62.8K engagements "Amjad advocated just two months ago for Israel to support the genocidal RSF militia in Sudan"  [@ThomasVLinge](/creator/x/ThomasVLinge) on [X](/post/tweet/1945560954562826589) 2025-07-16 19:07:32 UTC 186.4K followers, 16.1K engagements "Trump sending weapons to Ukraine so his wife will stop mocking him"  [@ThomasVLinge](/creator/x/ThomasVLinge) on [X](/post/tweet/1944789906426868078) 2025-07-14 16:03:40 UTC 186.4K followers, 280K engagements "Assad's Syria still lives through those who abuse their fellow-Syrians because of sectarian hatred. And it is ironic that some who fought years to topple him are currently the ones carrying this legacy without even seeing it"  [@ThomasVLinge](/creator/x/ThomasVLinge) on [X](/post/tweet/1945454221035233526) 2025-07-16 12:03:25 UTC 186.5K followers, 18.2K engagements "Myanmar : absolutely insane footage shows the moment a truck full of PDF resistance fighters accidentally stumbled upon a couple of junta soldiers who were going for a booze run at the local liquor store in Kanbalu Township (Sagaing region)"  [@ThomasVLinge](/creator/x/ThomasVLinge) on [X](/post/tweet/1944768789385507222) 2025-07-14 14:39:46 UTC 186.4K followers, 74.8K engagements "This really show how in the end it was never Hikmat's goal to save the Druze people. Hikmat's interests was only his own well being and now that Sunni tribal forces are once again breaching into Suwayda and the Israelis are not coming to his aid he's asking for protection from the Damascus government. The very same government whose forces he ambushed and executed on numerous occasions the same government which offered him multiple ceasefires to deescalate the situation all of which he refused. The Syrian government needs to intervene right now to prevent another round of sectarian bloodshed"  [@ThomasVLinge](/creator/x/ThomasVLinge) on [X](/post/tweet/1945988326042800494) 2025-07-17 23:25:46 UTC 186.4K followers, 165.9K engagements "Syria: the church in the village of al-Sawara al-Kubra in northern Suwayda was vandalized after government forces pushed out Druze gunmen and took control of the area"  [@ThomasVLinge](/creator/x/ThomasVLinge) on [X](/post/tweet/1945205692408737960) 2025-07-15 19:35:51 UTC 186.4K followers, 18K engagements "Syria: Israeli bombs hitting right next to the presidential palace in Damascus. XX years of mass murder by the Assad regime and not a single act like this"  [@ThomasVLinge](/creator/x/ThomasVLinge) on [X](/post/tweet/1945467395880919485) 2025-07-16 12:55:46 UTC 186.4K followers, 222.6K engagements "reports of a general mobilization across the Druze countryside in response to repeated abuses in the city of Suwayda. This is why the Syrian government needs to call off further military operations. Removing Hikmat and dismantling his SMC requires a delegate strategy conducted at the right time involving rival Druze groups. The current sledgehammer approach has only proven to be extremely counter-productive"  [@ThomasVLinge](/creator/x/ThomasVLinge) on [X](/post/tweet/1945486606128845164) 2025-07-16 14:12:06 UTC 186.4K followers, 21.2K engagements "@polidemitolog Yep and people online will celebrate it as "anti-imperialism""  [@ThomasVLinge](/creator/x/ThomasVLinge) on [X](/post/tweet/1942970802984604044) 2025-07-09 15:35:12 UTC 186.4K followers, 20K engagements "Events in Syria these past days have just been and endless stream of everyone kicking a hornets nest and coming to regret it afterwards"  [@ThomasVLinge](/creator/x/ThomasVLinge) on [X](/post/tweet/1946151739217924605) 2025-07-18 10:15:07 UTC 186.4K followers, 16K engagements "If you enjoyed my work and would like me to continue mapping these conflicts please consider buying me a coffee at I appreciate everyone that has shown an interest in my work and cited me as a source. I hope to continue doing this work and make it's publicly available for everyone to use 🙏❤🙂"  [@ThomasVLinge](/creator/x/ThomasVLinge) on [X](/post/tweet/1940089545950671071) 2025-07-01 16:46:07 UTC 186.4K followers, 84.8K engagements "Syria: sectarian violence is spreading beyond Suwayda. There are now multiple reports that Druze students are being kicked off campus at the Aleppo University"  [@ThomasVLinge](/creator/x/ThomasVLinge) on [X](/post/tweet/1945883483043229757) 2025-07-17 16:29:09 UTC 186.4K followers, 44.8K engagements "Syria: Israeli forces bombing the presidential palace in Damascus. It is basically because of the current Syrian government that Iranian power in the region was broken yet they're being bombed by the Israelis all the same"  [@ThomasVLinge](/creator/x/ThomasVLinge) on [X](/post/tweet/1945473364736319705) 2025-07-16 13:19:29 UTC 186.4K followers, 22.5K engagements "Complete chaos in Suwayda as government forces enter. Following a deal with some Druze factions government forces have reached the center of the city where they've removed a portrait of Druze leader Hikmat al-Hijri he on the other hand is the last one to refuse a deal and has ordered his mean to lay ambushed for the Syrian government forces. The death toll is rising"  [@ThomasVLinge](/creator/x/ThomasVLinge) on [X](/post/tweet/1945104384615977209) 2025-07-15 12:53:18 UTC 186.4K followers, 44.7K engagements "Syria: fighting has resumed in the city of Suwayda after sunni tribal fighters have entered the residential neighborhoods completely disregarding the ceasefire that was agreed last night"  [@ThomasVLinge](/creator/x/ThomasVLinge) on [X](/post/tweet/1946561027358814695) 2025-07-19 13:21:28 UTC 186.4K followers, 76.1K engagements "Myanmar : heavy junta airstrikes on the resistance-held town of Mogok killed at least X people today. One home was completely destroyed"  [@ThomasVLinge](/creator/x/ThomasVLinge) on [X](/post/tweet/1942549705336263109) 2025-07-08 11:41:55 UTC 186.4K followers, 8089 engagements "@karimfranceschi I know you want the bloodshed to continue to substain some pipedream this might in the end benefit the SDF's position but these are actual people dying here its not some game. Anything to stop the violence should be done now"  [@ThomasVLinge](/creator/x/ThomasVLinge) on [X](/post/tweet/1945992217241231733) 2025-07-17 23:41:14 UTC 186.4K followers, 6688 engagements "There is a very clear difference between the government intervening between the Druze and Bedouin like it should have done and the government partaking in the violence on the side of the Bedouin like it actually did. The government should be a neutral forces that descalates not pick a side between the two communities"  [@ThomasVLinge](/creator/x/ThomasVLinge) on [X](/post/tweet/1945997467301879844) 2025-07-18 00:02:05 UTC 186.5K followers, 3668 engagements "@cecild84 Europe this Europe that. Don't you live in London"  [@ThomasVLinge](/creator/x/ThomasVLinge) on [X](/post/tweet/1944533868498866305) 2025-07-13 23:06:16 UTC 186.4K followers, 1974 engagements "Unsurprising. Hikmat has placed himself outside of the Syrian state through his actions the past days and closed the door to a deal so he has not options but to continue fighting. He'll try again to bait the Syrian state into more fighting. The current ceasefire rests on the government's ability to resist this and on other Druze factions to actually deal with his SMC"  [@ThomasVLinge](/creator/x/ThomasVLinge) on [X](/post/tweet/1945502810906169510) 2025-07-16 15:16:30 UTC 186.4K followers, 177.1K engagements "More unacceptable behaviour from those with positions in the current government. Syria"  [@ThomasVLinge](/creator/x/ThomasVLinge) on [X](/post/tweet/1946240496621297683) 2025-07-18 16:07:48 UTC 186.4K followers, 15.3K engagements "The situation in #Sudan after two years of war: Today marks the second anniversary of the start of the war in Sudan and after two years of fighting the frontlines are anything but frozen. in recent weeks: -SAF captured Khartoum Bahri and is in the process of clearing Omdurman. -RSF launched a new offensive in northern Darfur seizing towns and tightening the siege on el-Fasher -A new alliance of RSF and SPLM-N launched joint attacks in south Kordofan and Blue Nile states"  [@ThomasVLinge](/creator/x/ThomasVLinge) on [X](/post/tweet/1912127396938993680) 2025-04-15 12:54:31 UTC 186.4K followers, 104.2K engagements "Syria has a new coat of arms. The old Baathist emblem has been replaced by a new eagle one with XX feathers representing the XX governorates of Syria and the XX years of Revolution against the Assad regime"  [@ThomasVLinge](/creator/x/ThomasVLinge) on [X](/post/tweet/1940867115457876173) 2025-07-03 20:15:54 UTC 186.4K followers, 371.4K engagements "And I would also add people that will uncritically share any footage or news of atrocities by one side even if it is old or fake but becoming Sherlock Holmes five minutes later when it involved a video or news of atrocities by the other side"  [@ThomasVLinge](/creator/x/ThomasVLinge) on [X](/post/tweet/1945826513237995881) 2025-07-17 12:42:47 UTC 186.4K followers, 11.7K engagements "This was Suwayda just seven months ago. A city which kept the spirits of revolution alive for years. A people who declared solidarity with all corners of Syria that were attacked by the Assad regime and a place which is now under attack itself"  [@ThomasVLinge](/creator/x/ThomasVLinge) on [X](/post/tweet/1945190264378654868) 2025-07-15 18:34:33 UTC 186.5K followers, 37K engagements "Syria: Bedouin civilians are fleeing from the western edge of the Suwayda province and the Lajat plain following reports of reprisal attacks by Druze gunmen on Bedouin across the region"  [@ThomasVLinge](/creator/x/ThomasVLinge) on [X](/post/tweet/1945811029830586385) 2025-07-17 11:41:15 UTC 186.4K followers, 36K engagements "Also some good news from Syria. The situation in the Druze suburb of Sahnaya in Damascus is calm thanks to joint efforts by the security forces and local elders to keep the area safe and prevent reprisal attacks"  [@ThomasVLinge](/creator/x/ThomasVLinge) on [X](/post/tweet/1945898477055054102) 2025-07-17 17:28:44 UTC 186.4K followers, 20.7K engagements "A new passport design has also been presented. Many Kurds will be disappointed however that the interim government decided to retain the Arab in the Syrian Arab Republic. It would have been a small change but a huge gesture to change it"  [@ThomasVLinge](/creator/x/ThomasVLinge) on [X](/post/tweet/1940867616643715178) 2025-07-03 20:17:54 UTC 186.4K followers, 46.9K engagements "Now it is the turn of Hikmat al-Hijri to stop the violence committed by his men just as it was the government's yesterday. Syria"  [@ThomasVLinge](/creator/x/ThomasVLinge) on [X](/post/tweet/1945822497363894634) 2025-07-17 12:26:49 UTC 186.5K followers, 15.6K engagements "Inter-Druze tensions already coming to the surface. Fighters of Hikmat al-Hijri have desecrated the tomb of Wahid al-Balous the Druze Sheikh who founded the Men of Dignity group and was assassinated by the Assad regime XX years ago. His son Laith is currently alignment with Damascus. Syria"  [@ThomasVLinge](/creator/x/ThomasVLinge) on [X](/post/tweet/1945832263096172712) 2025-07-17 13:05:37 UTC 186.4K followers, 14.4K engagements "Zeina Shahla a former detainee of the Assad regime and someone whose been working tirelessly for a new Syria for all. Syria future should get decided by the Zeina's of society not the sectarian thugs"  [@ThomasVLinge](/creator/x/ThomasVLinge) on [X](/post/tweet/1946316438739804309) 2025-07-18 21:09:34 UTC 186.4K followers, 45.5K engagements
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Siarhei Tsikhanouski, a prominent Belarusian opposition figure, has been released from prison and reunited with his wife in Lithuania after five years. He was a key figure in the Belarusian opposition and his release is a significant development in the country's politics. This event marks a rare positive note in a region filled with conflict and turmoil.
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Social topic influence syria #329, druze #550, myanmar #244, israel 4.76%, women 3.57%, iran 2.38%, stg 2.38%, putin 2.38%, countries 2.38%, burkina faso XXXX%
Top accounts mentioned or mentioned by @stpizzasteve @aws_albdewy @daringamerican2 @karimfranceschi @japoesdekok @tuchman_or @kenesarykazakh @cannibal1000 @hrhuffinstuff69 @webh4cker @inghimasi2024 @khalidintel @lorenzifix @cecild84 @osdiplomacynet @barronjakob @osintwarfare @yaakovjer @islamatics @deadlyk52946158
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"Syria BREAKING: Israeli strikes once again hit the Ministry of Defense in the center of Damascus. Caught live on television"
@ThomasVLinge on X 2025-07-16 12:18:16 UTC 186.4K followers, 37.5K engagements
"Myanmar : PDF resistance fighters raise their flag at a junta camp in the Shwebo township which they captured earlier this week" @ThomasVLinge on X 2025-07-11 12:31:31 UTC 186.4K followers, 17.8K engagements
"It will be a very painful experience for Syrians to see that those who were most vocal about government atrocities against Druze will be completely silent deny or even justify when similar atrocities are being committed against Sunni Bedouin by the Druze gunmen" @ThomasVLinge on X 2025-07-17 12:12:09 UTC 186.4K followers, 75.7K engagements
"The fact that Pahlavi needed to resort to AI to make a video of him being welcomed back in Iran by the masses shows you all you need to know about his actual popularity" @ThomasVLinge on X 2025-07-02 15:22:57 UTC 186.4K followers, 130.4K engagements
"MAP UPDATE: the situation in Myanmar as of 01/07/2025. In the month of June heavy fighting was ongoing in several regions on the country. In Bago and Karen the resistance took out couple of junta outposts while in Shan state the regime is slowly advancing against the TNLA" @ThomasVLinge on X 2025-07-01 12:12:56 UTC 186.4K followers, 30.3K engagements
"Syrians are cleaning the streets of Damascus following Israeli attacks. A nation that survived XX years of war and XX years of the Assad regime will have no problem overcoming Israeli strikes as well" @ThomasVLinge on X 2025-07-16 21:09:07 UTC 186.4K followers, 53.7K engagements
"Syria: another video of brutal atrocities against Druze men has appeared online. The video shows X Druze men being led to a balcony in the town of al-Majdal in Suwayda by STG forces. Once there they're forced to climb over the railing and shot as they do falling to their death" @ThomasVLinge on X 2025-07-18 22:15:29 UTC 186.4K followers, 28.7K engagements
"Abby used to work for a Russian media channel during the Donbas war never condemned the mass murders committed by Assad and Putin and made propaganda reports for Maduro as Venezuelan protesters were being killed in the streets on a daily basis" @ThomasVLinge on X 2025-07-10 10:27:54 UTC 186.4K followers, 129.5K engagements
"Ah to be young and crush one of the most militarized regimes in all of Asia" @ThomasVLinge on X 2025-07-03 22:07:06 UTC 186.4K followers, 600K engagements
"As today painfully shows again the many speeches statements and meetings about tolerance diversity and inclusion at the political top mean very little if these principles are not enforced in the lower ranks of the military. In the Syrian military sectarianism fundamentalism and humiliation of minorities remain very normalized if not the dominant narrative. And it is exactly at this level where the future of Syria's diversity and cohabitation is being shaped and decided" @ThomasVLinge on X 2025-07-15 13:58:56 UTC 186.4K followers, 46.6K engagements
"Syrians in Damascus holding a silent protest against the war in Suwayda. People like this are the reason not to give up on Syria" @ThomasVLinge on X 2025-07-16 16:17:36 UTC 186.5K followers, 31.7K engagements
"Rule of thumb when it comes to Burkina Faso : Whenever Traore makes an announcement like this it means he has lost another town to the jihadists and is saying these things to put up a smokescreen to hide his military incompetence" @ThomasVLinge on X 2025-07-09 13:18:07 UTC 186.4K followers, 831.6K engagements
""terrorist Bedouin tribe members" More genocidal language from the usual suspects" @ThomasVLinge on X 2025-07-17 12:40:59 UTC 186.4K followers, 124.1K engagements
"Syria: Druze Sheikh Yusuf Jerboa has confirmed a ceasefire has been reached between the Syrian government and those Druze factions that were already in negotiations until yesterday. This once again leaves Hikmat al-Hijri as the only outlier it's now up to other Druze factions to deal with him" @ThomasVLinge on X 2025-07-16 14:44:03 UTC 186.4K followers, 60K engagements
"Syria: more and more gruesome details are coming out of the massacres that have taken place in the city of Suwayda. This one at a family home in the city where XX people including X women and girls were killed" @ThomasVLinge on X 2025-07-17 14:45:06 UTC 186.4K followers, 32.3K engagements
"Syria: anti-government protests have erupted in the Druze district of Jaramana in Damascus as the STG continues it's military operations in Suwayda under heavy Israeli bombardments. Even if in the end the government will seize Suwayda it will have lost the Druze" @ThomasVLinge on X 2025-07-16 11:14:57 UTC 186.4K followers, 23.5K engagements
"Syria: SANA reports a ceasefire has been reached in Suwayda without providing much details on what the ceasefire entails. Hopefully the reports and true and more details will become known soon" @ThomasVLinge on X 2025-07-16 14:30:19 UTC 186.4K followers, 55.9K engagements
"Despite what naive YouTubers like Binsky might tell you Iran is not a safe country to travel to. You'll most likely be kidnapped and held for months possibly years until you're exchanged for an actual criminal. DO NOT TRAVEL TO IRAN" @ThomasVLinge on X 2025-07-10 18:14:55 UTC 186.5K followers, 47.4K engagements
"Horrific scenes in northern Myanmar . A junta warplane bombed a Buddhist monastery in the Sagaing Township as many villagers were taking shelter there. At least XX civilians are confirmed to have been killed in the attack women and children included" @ThomasVLinge on X 2025-07-11 11:14:11 UTC 186.4K followers, 29.9K engagements
"Al-Sharaa needs to stop this madness or he'll risk everything the interim government has sought to build these past seven months. Syria" @ThomasVLinge on X 2025-07-16 12:33:45 UTC 186.4K followers, 136K engagements
"Syria: Druze elders restore the Syrian flag in the Jaramana neighborhood of Damascus after a group of protesters had taken it down earlier in the day" @ThomasVLinge on X 2025-07-16 16:26:18 UTC 186.4K followers, 50.5K engagements
"Note that Israel will be happy to stand by and watch as Bedouin tribesmen invade Suwayda and slaughter more Druze people. Israel's goal with the bombardments was never to protect the Druze only to destabilize Syria further. Something it sadly succeeded in" @ThomasVLinge on X 2025-07-17 23:53:47 UTC 186.4K followers, 41.4K engagements
"Whether you've build your identity around hostility to Israel like the Houthis or sought peace through diplomacy for months like Syria Israel will bomb you all the same. A message which will not go unnoticed by countries like Jordan and Egypt. At peace with Israel now but as soon as weaknesses appear in these countries Israel will not hesitate to exploit them" @ThomasVLinge on X 2025-07-16 13:58:27 UTC 186.4K followers, 53K engagements
"Pro-Traore disinformation account shares claim that XX% of Burkina Faso has access to electricity under Traore junta. When asked about a source in the comment shares a factsheet by the ADBG which says that in reality only XX% has access with the GOAL of increasing that number to XX% by 2028" @ThomasVLinge on X 2025-07-13 22:11:23 UTC 186.4K followers, 62.8K engagements
"Amjad advocated just two months ago for Israel to support the genocidal RSF militia in Sudan" @ThomasVLinge on X 2025-07-16 19:07:32 UTC 186.4K followers, 16.1K engagements
"Trump sending weapons to Ukraine so his wife will stop mocking him" @ThomasVLinge on X 2025-07-14 16:03:40 UTC 186.4K followers, 280K engagements
"Assad's Syria still lives through those who abuse their fellow-Syrians because of sectarian hatred. And it is ironic that some who fought years to topple him are currently the ones carrying this legacy without even seeing it" @ThomasVLinge on X 2025-07-16 12:03:25 UTC 186.5K followers, 18.2K engagements
"Myanmar : absolutely insane footage shows the moment a truck full of PDF resistance fighters accidentally stumbled upon a couple of junta soldiers who were going for a booze run at the local liquor store in Kanbalu Township (Sagaing region)" @ThomasVLinge on X 2025-07-14 14:39:46 UTC 186.4K followers, 74.8K engagements
"This really show how in the end it was never Hikmat's goal to save the Druze people. Hikmat's interests was only his own well being and now that Sunni tribal forces are once again breaching into Suwayda and the Israelis are not coming to his aid he's asking for protection from the Damascus government. The very same government whose forces he ambushed and executed on numerous occasions the same government which offered him multiple ceasefires to deescalate the situation all of which he refused. The Syrian government needs to intervene right now to prevent another round of sectarian bloodshed" @ThomasVLinge on X 2025-07-17 23:25:46 UTC 186.4K followers, 165.9K engagements
"Syria: the church in the village of al-Sawara al-Kubra in northern Suwayda was vandalized after government forces pushed out Druze gunmen and took control of the area" @ThomasVLinge on X 2025-07-15 19:35:51 UTC 186.4K followers, 18K engagements
"Syria: Israeli bombs hitting right next to the presidential palace in Damascus. XX years of mass murder by the Assad regime and not a single act like this" @ThomasVLinge on X 2025-07-16 12:55:46 UTC 186.4K followers, 222.6K engagements
"reports of a general mobilization across the Druze countryside in response to repeated abuses in the city of Suwayda. This is why the Syrian government needs to call off further military operations. Removing Hikmat and dismantling his SMC requires a delegate strategy conducted at the right time involving rival Druze groups. The current sledgehammer approach has only proven to be extremely counter-productive" @ThomasVLinge on X 2025-07-16 14:12:06 UTC 186.4K followers, 21.2K engagements
"@polidemitolog Yep and people online will celebrate it as "anti-imperialism"" @ThomasVLinge on X 2025-07-09 15:35:12 UTC 186.4K followers, 20K engagements
"Events in Syria these past days have just been and endless stream of everyone kicking a hornets nest and coming to regret it afterwards" @ThomasVLinge on X 2025-07-18 10:15:07 UTC 186.4K followers, 16K engagements
"If you enjoyed my work and would like me to continue mapping these conflicts please consider buying me a coffee at I appreciate everyone that has shown an interest in my work and cited me as a source. I hope to continue doing this work and make it's publicly available for everyone to use 🙏❤🙂" @ThomasVLinge on X 2025-07-01 16:46:07 UTC 186.4K followers, 84.8K engagements
"Syria: sectarian violence is spreading beyond Suwayda. There are now multiple reports that Druze students are being kicked off campus at the Aleppo University" @ThomasVLinge on X 2025-07-17 16:29:09 UTC 186.4K followers, 44.8K engagements
"Syria: Israeli forces bombing the presidential palace in Damascus. It is basically because of the current Syrian government that Iranian power in the region was broken yet they're being bombed by the Israelis all the same" @ThomasVLinge on X 2025-07-16 13:19:29 UTC 186.4K followers, 22.5K engagements
"Complete chaos in Suwayda as government forces enter. Following a deal with some Druze factions government forces have reached the center of the city where they've removed a portrait of Druze leader Hikmat al-Hijri he on the other hand is the last one to refuse a deal and has ordered his mean to lay ambushed for the Syrian government forces. The death toll is rising" @ThomasVLinge on X 2025-07-15 12:53:18 UTC 186.4K followers, 44.7K engagements
"Syria: fighting has resumed in the city of Suwayda after sunni tribal fighters have entered the residential neighborhoods completely disregarding the ceasefire that was agreed last night" @ThomasVLinge on X 2025-07-19 13:21:28 UTC 186.4K followers, 76.1K engagements
"Myanmar : heavy junta airstrikes on the resistance-held town of Mogok killed at least X people today. One home was completely destroyed" @ThomasVLinge on X 2025-07-08 11:41:55 UTC 186.4K followers, 8089 engagements
"@karimfranceschi I know you want the bloodshed to continue to substain some pipedream this might in the end benefit the SDF's position but these are actual people dying here its not some game. Anything to stop the violence should be done now" @ThomasVLinge on X 2025-07-17 23:41:14 UTC 186.4K followers, 6688 engagements
"There is a very clear difference between the government intervening between the Druze and Bedouin like it should have done and the government partaking in the violence on the side of the Bedouin like it actually did. The government should be a neutral forces that descalates not pick a side between the two communities" @ThomasVLinge on X 2025-07-18 00:02:05 UTC 186.5K followers, 3668 engagements
"@cecild84 Europe this Europe that. Don't you live in London" @ThomasVLinge on X 2025-07-13 23:06:16 UTC 186.4K followers, 1974 engagements
"Unsurprising. Hikmat has placed himself outside of the Syrian state through his actions the past days and closed the door to a deal so he has not options but to continue fighting. He'll try again to bait the Syrian state into more fighting. The current ceasefire rests on the government's ability to resist this and on other Druze factions to actually deal with his SMC" @ThomasVLinge on X 2025-07-16 15:16:30 UTC 186.4K followers, 177.1K engagements
"More unacceptable behaviour from those with positions in the current government. Syria" @ThomasVLinge on X 2025-07-18 16:07:48 UTC 186.4K followers, 15.3K engagements
"The situation in #Sudan after two years of war: Today marks the second anniversary of the start of the war in Sudan and after two years of fighting the frontlines are anything but frozen. in recent weeks: -SAF captured Khartoum Bahri and is in the process of clearing Omdurman. -RSF launched a new offensive in northern Darfur seizing towns and tightening the siege on el-Fasher -A new alliance of RSF and SPLM-N launched joint attacks in south Kordofan and Blue Nile states" @ThomasVLinge on X 2025-04-15 12:54:31 UTC 186.4K followers, 104.2K engagements
"Syria has a new coat of arms. The old Baathist emblem has been replaced by a new eagle one with XX feathers representing the XX governorates of Syria and the XX years of Revolution against the Assad regime" @ThomasVLinge on X 2025-07-03 20:15:54 UTC 186.4K followers, 371.4K engagements
"And I would also add people that will uncritically share any footage or news of atrocities by one side even if it is old or fake but becoming Sherlock Holmes five minutes later when it involved a video or news of atrocities by the other side" @ThomasVLinge on X 2025-07-17 12:42:47 UTC 186.4K followers, 11.7K engagements
"This was Suwayda just seven months ago. A city which kept the spirits of revolution alive for years. A people who declared solidarity with all corners of Syria that were attacked by the Assad regime and a place which is now under attack itself" @ThomasVLinge on X 2025-07-15 18:34:33 UTC 186.5K followers, 37K engagements
"Syria: Bedouin civilians are fleeing from the western edge of the Suwayda province and the Lajat plain following reports of reprisal attacks by Druze gunmen on Bedouin across the region" @ThomasVLinge on X 2025-07-17 11:41:15 UTC 186.4K followers, 36K engagements
"Also some good news from Syria. The situation in the Druze suburb of Sahnaya in Damascus is calm thanks to joint efforts by the security forces and local elders to keep the area safe and prevent reprisal attacks" @ThomasVLinge on X 2025-07-17 17:28:44 UTC 186.4K followers, 20.7K engagements
"A new passport design has also been presented. Many Kurds will be disappointed however that the interim government decided to retain the Arab in the Syrian Arab Republic. It would have been a small change but a huge gesture to change it" @ThomasVLinge on X 2025-07-03 20:17:54 UTC 186.4K followers, 46.9K engagements
"Now it is the turn of Hikmat al-Hijri to stop the violence committed by his men just as it was the government's yesterday. Syria" @ThomasVLinge on X 2025-07-17 12:26:49 UTC 186.5K followers, 15.6K engagements
"Inter-Druze tensions already coming to the surface. Fighters of Hikmat al-Hijri have desecrated the tomb of Wahid al-Balous the Druze Sheikh who founded the Men of Dignity group and was assassinated by the Assad regime XX years ago. His son Laith is currently alignment with Damascus. Syria" @ThomasVLinge on X 2025-07-17 13:05:37 UTC 186.4K followers, 14.4K engagements
"Zeina Shahla a former detainee of the Assad regime and someone whose been working tirelessly for a new Syria for all. Syria future should get decided by the Zeina's of society not the sectarian thugs" @ThomasVLinge on X 2025-07-18 21:09:34 UTC 186.4K followers, 45.5K engagements