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Think about this for a moment.
This man was once considered one of the top leaders of ISIS. The United States even placed a $10 million bounty on his head. He later returned to Syria and founded the Al-Nusra Front, a group widely regarded as even more brutal than ISIS. Later, he rebranded it as Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS).

For years, he carried out terr@rist operations in Syria. Thousands of civilians and Syrian soldiers lost their lives. At the same time, Turkey and Western countries were determined to remove Bashar al-Assad from power, but Russia stood firmly behind him. For more than 11 years, they failed to achieve that goal.

Then everything changed.
According to this perspective, Turkey and the West eventually partnered with him. While Russia was heavily focused on the war in Ukraine, they launched an unprecedented campaign that ultimately succeeded in removing Bashar al-Assad from power.

What happened next is what many people find difficult to understand.
After helping remove Russia's key ally in Syria, the $10 million bounty on his head was lifted, and he became the president of Syria. The same man who had once fought against the West and was accused of leading extremist operations suddenly became a Western ally. President Donald Trump has repeatedly claimed that he was the one who helped put him in power as Syria's president. Even yesterday, Trump repeated that claim during a press conference in Turkey.

Now he has been invited to attend the NATO summit in Turkey, where he arrived this morning.
French President Emmanuel Macron also said, during his recent visit to Syria, that France would send special forces to help his government fight ISIS, the extremist group that emerged from al-Qaeda in the Middle East.

So let me ask you a few questions.
How does someone go from having a $10 million bounty on their head to being welcomed at international summits?
How does a man once labeled a terror!st become a partner of the very countries that once hunted him?

And if the West says it is fighting terr@rism, why do critics argue that it is working with former extremist figures in Syria while also accusing armed groups in the Sahel of threatening the AES countries?

Whether you agree with this interpretation or not, these are questions many people are asking. The world of geopolitics is full of shifting alliances, changing interests, and decisions that often leave ordinary people wondering where principles end and strategic interests begin.

A strange world indeed.

What is ur husband occupation??
He doing what for a living??
Some women gat strong head
She wanna used her nursing period to stop EFCC from arresting her husband.
If didn't block EFCC way!
Dey will not assault her!
Some women thought 💭🤔
We d reader were da* t like dem

FlamingBulb:
you know it's not Davido wears white polo costing £2000 type of news...na dose one be news for Una IQ

bitter Obi fan
By dey re comments
We shall knw them
Tinubu till 2035
No man can stop d winning
Except God!

The South African government has announced that it will seize and sell assets belonging to Nigerian immigrants found to be living in the country illegally, saying no compensation will be paid.

Justice Minister Mmamoloko Kubayi said properties and other assets acquired by undocumented immigrants are regarded under South African law as proceeds of crime and will be forfeited to the state.

According to her, the funds raised from the sale of the confiscated assets will be used to strengthen crime-fighting efforts and support victims of crime in South Africa.

The announcement comes as Nigeria and several other African countries continue evacuating some of their citizens from South Africa following renewed xenophobic attacks.

Congratulations 👏🎉 to you!

Wizardslayer:
Muyico or whatever your name is called, the day you'll see light .

MUYICO YOU'LL DO MORE WONDERFUL WORK THAN Habibat Salaudeen my Christian sister from kogi state. Ameen

first asked which religion ☯️ i belong to
I'm Christian
Deeper life member!
Muyico nickname of Muyiwa
Oluwamuyiwa mean thy lord bring/lead him to Earth, like olorun mu wa=> God bring him to Earth
Oluwamuyiwa is a Christian
So back to my questions
During my toddler ages
We memorise full Bible off hands
No big deal den!
So what special abt this??
Reading Bible without knowing d words
It sound somehow to me

Did you know that there is a private town in South Africa where Black People are not allowed🌚❓

It’s called Orania…‼️ founded in 1991, shortly before the end of apartheid.

The town was established by a group of Afrikaners who wanted to preserve their language, culture, and traditions through self-governance.

It has a population of about 3000 people.

They have their own currency called the Ora💰
Own schools
Own economy (mostly agro-based)
Own small manufacturing industries
Own amenities
Only spoken language there is Afrikaans.

One of the town's principles is that residents perform their own labour rather than employing outside workers.

Orania accepts only people who identify as Afrikaners. As long as you are black “Abahambe”🤩

hegelian:
Meaning reading the quran or quran reading contest pls?

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ChristCee:
Go and ask your grandfather

bitter Obi fan
We know them by dey re comments
Tinubu till 2035
If u like drink p*son

Another missed of priority
They go soon embezzle ours money
Trick of corruptions

You re one of them
They should investigate him too

Congratulations 👏🎉 to you guyz
U found salvation
No salvation elsewhere

Meaning of this please?? Z

Congratulations 👏🎉 to them

Congratulations 👏🎉 to ours easterners people

Welcome home 🏡🏡
No worry
We will soon come after them
Nigeria always play the last games

dbestuncle:
The Federal Government has approved the 25% withdrawal of Pension fund for housing or mortgage activities.
Pls I need a mortgage company that can help me access this money so I can use it to pay for my rent. I know this is not the intention of the government and that is why I need a mortgage company that can make this happen.
Thank you

Long processing!!
U need to operate acct with dem
Atleast 6month or 1yrs.
And U must not gat and loan default.
Like BVN blacklist.

Nah God knows weytinz the officer do
When he dey alive.
FRSC at Ibadan
Seize my jenchang bike
Till today I no c am collect
I, bought it 16k
Dey demanding 70k to bail it out
Dey gave me one yeye bank acct den
I, no fit remember self
But I lay curse on them
B4 I leave dey re office

He told over 900 people, including nearly 300 children, to drink poison. Most of them believed, until the very end, that he loved them.

Jim Jones was born in Indiana in 1931. He grew up poor during the Great Depression and developed an early pull toward preaching. In the 1950s, he founded a church called the Peoples Temple in Indianapolis. What made him different from other preachers of his time was his message. He preached against racism, at a time when segregation was still deeply entrenched, and built one of the only truly integrated congregations in the country. Thousands of people, a large number of them Black Americans, found real belonging in his church.

For years, Jones seemed like someone genuinely doing good. His church fed the hungry, ran social programs, and helped elect real politicians in San Francisco. He met with state governors and even the First Lady of the United States. To an outsider, it looked like a movement built on compassion.

Underneath that, something much darker was happening. Former members later described being beaten, humiliated, and blackmailed. Families were pressured to sign over their homes and savings to the church. People were kept apart from their own relatives and encouraged to report on each other. Some members said they were sexually abused by Jones himself. Jones also began telling members that if they ever left the church, the government would round them up into concentration camps, a fear designed purely to keep people from leaving.

As journalists began asking harder questions in the 1970s, Jones grew increasingly paranoid. In 1977, he moved hundreds of his followers to a remote jungle compound he had built in Guyana, South America. He called it Jonestown and promised his followers a socialist paradise, free from racism and persecution.

Life at Jonestown was nothing like what was promised. Members worked 18-hour days. Food ran short. Passports and money were confiscated the moment people arrived, cutting them off from any way to leave on their own. Loudspeakers played Jones's sermons on a constant loop, day and night. He began running what he called "White Night" drills, gathering everyone together and telling them poison was coming, watching how they reacted, conditioning them slowly to accept death as something that might be necessary one day.

In November 1978, U.S. Congressman Leo Ryan traveled to Guyana to investigate the growing number of complaints from families whose relatives were trapped inside Jonestown. At first, the visit seemed to go smoothly. But as Ryan prepared to leave, several Jonestown residents quietly approached his group and begged to leave with him. Jones saw this as ultimate betrayal. He ordered Ryan and his group ambushed at the airstrip. Ryan and four others were shot and killed as they tried to board their planes.

Back at the compound, Jones gathered everyone into the main pavilion. He told them the time had come for what he called a "revolutionary act."

Children were given the poison first. Parents and nurses used syringes to drop a mixture of cyanide, sedatives, and powdered drink mix into their throats. Adults then lined up to drink the same poison from a large vat, while armed guards stood around the pavilion, watching. Survivors and investigators have said for decades that while some members may have gone willingly, believing fully in what Jones had built up over years, many others were coerced, some at gunpoint, with no real chance to refuse.

When it was over, more than 900 people were dead. Nearly 300 of them were children who never had any say in the decision that ended their lives. Jones himself was found dead in a chair at the center of the pavilion, from a single gunshot wound to the head.

It remains one of the largest mass deaths in American history, and it's the origin of the phrase "drinking the Kool-Aid," though the drink used that day was actually a cheaper off-brand called Flavor Aid.

What makes Jonestown so hard to look away from isn't just the scale of it. It's the years leading up to it. Nobody walked into that jungle expecting to die there. They walked in looking for belonging, safety, and a better world, and were led, slowly and deliberately, to a place from which there was no way out.

Sources: History.com, "Jonestown"; Britannica, "Jonestown"; FBI.gov, "Jonestown"; Wikipedia, "Jim Jones"

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A South African 🇿🇦 says: We Chased Foreigners Away Out of Jealousy ! Very Soon We Are Going To Finish Each Other With Guns. We Hate Them Because Some of them Drove Better cars than Ours, Some had made more money than us and some were simply living better lives.

We thought if we chase them away we will take what belonged to them and Become ours, we thought when they leave all their cars and houses will Become ours.

He says, is the real reason they were chased away it wasn't really about jobs. Now, according to him, unemployment has increased as companies are closing. Many things are getting worse, the economy is declining, and he believes South Africans will regret what happened.'"
South Africa will regret their actions.

Likewise Nigeria too
We hardly gat erection.
With d situation on ground now!
Except by influence of harddrugs

release them just like dat??
i smell lies

May her gentle soul rest in peace 🕊️🕊️

Advanced terrorist
God sha dey!

Iran cluster bomb will soon reach dere

I, hope gods will not be angry 🤬😡
The gods must be craxy

Congratulations 👏🎉 to Wike
We don win!

already registered since last year
yet to generate a code for me
at ibadan branch

Sugarcane thief
Job Weldon

He need police reports

no be everything wey woman talks
person go blived