I wrote a bit about the two largest ethnic insurgencies in Iran, the Kurdish and Baloch movements sharbat.substack.com/p/he-went-to...

"You’re suffocating me"..."I’m fucking dying"..."I can’t breathe." We found 41 people who died after officers put them in this mummy-like restraint called The Wrap. Watching body cam videos was heart wrenching. w/ @farooqumar.bsky.social news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

Hey, cool. @lastweektonight.com just did a segment using reporting I did w/ @farooqumar.bsky.social Oliver was talking about body cams--and how law enforcement agencies have often undermined their potential The same body-cams Dems are centering that ICE reforms on www.youtube.com/watch?v=jP4_...

@farooqumar.bsky.social and Ellen Gilmer report how denaturalization—a top enforcement priority at the Justice Department under Trump—could be a consequence for something as mundane as a falsified tax return. #immigration #DOJ #denaturalization #citizenship

For @washingtonpost.com I wrote about Pakistani-born artist Shahzia Sikander's mesmerizing video installation “The Last Post” at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, on the legacies of British colonialism in South Asia and China: wapo.st/4eTBMme

Thousands of Uyghur immigrants are in Syria, some having lived there for more than a decade. Now, they are hoping they can make a home there, but geopolitics and global concern over foreign fighters might make that difficult. foreignpolicy.com/2025/04/04/u...

Syria will hold a national conference starting Jan 4 - basically a grand jirga. Around 1,200 people will attend, and come up with a process for a new constitution. HTS, as a group, will be dissolved at the conference.

Turkey to allow pro-Kurdish party to visit jailed PKK leader, newspaper says www.reuters.com/world/middle...

Here's my look at how the fall of Assad offers chance for closure for cases of the missing - including American Majd Kamalmaz - and how former regime officials might now be held accountable for war crimes. news.bgov.com/bloomberg-go...

Here's my look at how the fall of Assad offers chance for closure for cases of the missing - including American Majd Kamalmaz - and how former regime officials might now be held accountable for war crimes. news.bgov.com/bloomberg-go...

What comes after Assad? In Syria, one positive consequence of a long war is there are actually plenty of groups with some governance experience.

At this point in Syria, I’m not sure it even matters what powers like the US, Russia, Turkey or Iran want. The fact on the ground is Assad is falling. There’s not only unprecedented military losses, but also an organic civil uprising that’s more widespread even than when this all began in 2011.

If current Syrian opposition push continues, pretty soon the regime will just have Latakia left - including key Russian base at Tartus - and Damascus will be pressed from north by HTS and south by Daraa opposition forces.

Assad sent his immediate family to Russia and the UAE per Syrian and other Arab officials according to the WSJ. Many signs pointing to Assad looking for an off ramp, but what comes after for Syria? www.wsj.com/world/middle...

FBI investigates mysterious drones filling night sky in New Jersey that have 'unnerved' residents www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

Leonard Peltier: Amnesty Int’l Calls on Biden to Free Indigenous Leader “Before It’s Too Late” www.democracynow.org/2024/11/26/b...

As policymakers rushed to equip cops with body cams, they often failed to grapple with a fundamental question: Who controls the footage? They defaulted to leaving police with the power to decide what is recorded, who can see it and when. By @ericumansky.bsky.social, w/ @farooqumar.bsky.social

“It tastes much better than other bananas. Indeed, quite good,” he said. Cryptocurrency entrepreneur who bought banana art for $6.2 million eats the fruit in Hong Kong apnews.com/article/hong...

Thousands of Rohingya in refugee camps have joined up to fight alongside Myanmar’s military junta in the civil war, lured by promises of citizenship www.reuters.com/world/asia-p...

Can't recall a development like this in the US before: 100+ civil society groups are saying they are worried about a proposed law handing the Treasury broad power to target non-profits over vague accusations of being "terrorist supporting organizations" #HR9495 www.amnestyusa.org/press-releas...

NYPD to Pay Largest Protester Settlement Ever For Abuses During George Floyd Uprising @akelalacy.bsky.social reports at @theintercept.com https://theintercept.com/2023/07/20/nypd-protester-settlement-george-floyd/