Alberto Hernandez, MPP
@AHernandez_SAC
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Husband | Gov't Relations @ SAC | HKS/MIT Alum 🎓 | Bridging MENA insights w/ US policymakers | Tech consultant for pol. campaigns | Advocacy | RT not Endorseme
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Joined October 2022
🇺🇸 هل نحن أمام بداية شراكة دفاعية أمريكية–سورية؟ 🇸🇾 🔴 عاجل: لجنة القوات المسلحة في مجلس النواب الأمريكي متفائلة جدًا بمسار سوريا الجديد لدرجة أنها طلبت من وزارة الدفاع (البنتاغون) تقديم إحاطة للكونغرس قبل **١٥ فبراير ٢٠٢٦** حول “التقدم، التحديات، وآفاق الشراكة الدفاعية المحتملة
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This is insane: a U.S.-backed partner force praising a teenage “martyr” suicide attack on Syrian government soldiers. Our tax dollars shouldn’t bankroll suicide bomb propaganda—period. “Counter-ISIS partner,” huh?
#Syria: Kurdish sources announced that a SDF fighter carried out a suicide attack against Government forces. https://t.co/g4M8fA3Ry6 Killed last week ( https://t.co/5RMyMAJljM), he was part of the US-trained and equipped #SDF commandos. https://t.co/HWbVQG7X3L
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Expect this to go nowhere fast. Graham can’t even get his Russia secondary sanctions package over the finish line with 80+ (!) Senate cosponsors. If Trump doesn’t want it, it’s not happening
Watching the deteriorating situation in Syria with great concern. The Kurds are under threat from the new Syrian government that is aligned with Turkey. It would be a disaster for America’s reputation and national security interests to abandon the Kurds, who were the chief ally
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Qatar’s Foreign Ministry announced a new initiative to support the voluntary return of Syrian refugees from Lebanon, in partnership with the International Organization for Migration. The first phase, costing around $20 million, will target 100,000 people, providing housing
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The data speaks for itself. #ISIS attacks in #Syria in 2024: 692 #ISIS attacks in #Syria in 2025: 348 (= 50% decline) #ISIS attack deaths in 2024: 756 #ISIS attack deaths in 2025: 183 (= 76% decline) All data, from
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I’m confused. We were told that once Assad was gone there would be no ISIS - Assad was the sole driver of ISIS. What happened?
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طيب … «عقد الشَّرَع اجتماعًا خاصًا مع 15 شخصية كردية من المثقفين والوجوه المجتمعية المؤثرة من مدينة كوباني الكردية في شمال سوريا. وقد عُقد الاجتماع في مطلع الأسبوع الماضي ضمن زيارة غير معلنة قام بها الشَّرَع إلى أكبر سدود سوريا، سدّ الطبقة، الذي سيطرت عليه مؤخرًا [دمشق].
محضُ تكهّنات، لكن لن أستغرب إن رأينا قريبًا في شمال شرق سوريا بروز شخصية قيادية كردية/ضمن قوات سوريا الديمقراطية بديلة—شخص قادر فعليًا على ضبط الفصائل المسلحة وتثبيت اتفاقٍ مستدام مع أحمد الشرع والدولة السورية ضمن مسار الاندماج. ففي نهاية المطاف، فإن العبقرية الاستراتيجية للشرع
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Well, well, well… “al-Sharaa held a private meeting with 15 intellectual and influential community Kurdish figures from the northern Syrian Kurdish city of Kobane. The meeting was held early last week as part of unannounced visit by Sharaa to Syria's largest dam, Tabqa, which
Pure speculation, but I wouldn’t be surprised if we see a new Kurdish/SDF leadership figure emerge in NE Syria soon—someone who can actually rein in the militias and lock in a durable accord with al-Sharaa and the Syrian state for integration. After all, al-Sharaa’s strategic
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The Syrian MoI opens settlement centers in Raqqa for former SDF fighters, similar to what Damascus did in other governorates previously with former regime fighters, so they can eventually get new civilian ID cards
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Ironiquement, ce commandant du Front al-Nosra, que bcp de médias français, occidentaux et même arabes, présentent encore comme l’actuel Président syrien al-Chareaa, s’appelle Abou Mohamad al-Kurdi, il est kurde…
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Former U.S. Syria Envoy James Jeffrey rejected SDF/YPG claims of “betrayal,” saying the U.S. never promised to defend or back a Kurdish state. He said the partnership was always temporary and tactical, only to fight ISIS: We never said we would support a Kurdish region. We
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#Syria: "The SDF’s reliance on tribal networks and lack of local knowledge to vet any information it received resulted in persistent cases of false reporting – sometimes just to secure payment from informants’ handlers, other times as a means to settle local disputes (...) in
A short piece looking at the history of SDF and HTS counter-ISIS operations, specifically the two’s track records in building informant networks, and what it might mean for the anti-ISIS fight in the northeast. Based on years of fieldwork in Idlib & NES. https://t.co/hJUcvtQXTg
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UNHCR is pleased to announce the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Ministry of Justice @SyrMOf aimed at strengthening a legal environent, supporting refugee, IDP returnees & affected communities in Syria to enjoy their rights, protection & access to justice.
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مندوب سوريا لدى الأمم المتحدة إبراهيم علبي في تصريح خاص لـ سانا من واشنطن: الكرد مكون أساسي من النسيج الاجتماعي السوري والمرسوم 13 نقطة تحول للاعتراف بحقوقهم. #سوريا
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Update: The deadline given to the SDF has expired, and the Syrian government affirms that it is now considering its next options.
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Scenario A: CENTCOM is in favor of Syrian Govt custody of ISIS prisons Scenario B: CENTCOM is NOT in favor of Syrian Govt custody For subscribers to scenario B — in what world would we continue to fund a separatist militia that’s cost us $2.4B that goes against priority #1, 2,
The narratives on Syria right now are full of logical inconsistencies. We are told the SDF is the only "battle-hardened" force capable of holding the line. Yet, in a matter of days, Damascus has effectively reasserted control over roughly 80% of SDF-held territory. Moreover,
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@sarahadams and how do you take the allegations SDF ABANDONED the one thing we’ve paid them $2.4B+ to do??? https://t.co/ozvagvWbuI
Financial Times: One western diplomat said: “[SDF] now shown we can’t trust them with the prisons; their willingness to abandon them, to risk hardcore Isis prisoners running free, pissed everyone off.”
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Amongst the logical necessities coming out of the assertions of our gracious CIA alum — any and all counter-ISIS missions that took place in formerly SDF-held territory indicate that they were imperfect partners! Separatist militia ❌ Sovereign Govt ✅ Next!
@AHernandez_SAC Those Damascus ISIS operations were shams, in one they planted weapons in the desert so the US could bomb a an “ISIS weapons cache”, for someone acting like they are putting out a logical argument you’ve included lots of terrorist misinformation and deception as evidence and fact
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Financial Times: One western diplomat said: “[SDF] now shown we can’t trust them with the prisons; their willingness to abandon them, to risk hardcore Isis prisoners running free, pissed everyone off.”
ft.com
Forces who once helped Washington fight Islamists retreat following assault by Ahmed al-Sharaa’s government
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#Syria: the Interior Ministry has integrated Aqtan prison - formerly under #SDF control & the main detention facility in #Raqqa province - into its app. This will allow relatives of detainees to access information about them.
#Syria: the Interior Ministry has launched the "Your Voice Has Been Heard" application to simplify procedures and promote transparency. Through the app, citizens can, for example, access information about a detained relative or submit complaints.
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