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Trump’s Syria pull-out helps ISIS attack abroad
Paul Rogers | Updated at 08:43pm on November 26, 2019
IT ALL seemed clear on October 6, at least to Donald Trump: ISIS had been defeated; he could ‘bring the boys home’ from Syria. Only...
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Changing warfare by the weak
Paul Rogers | Updated at 12:00am on September 23, 2019
OVER 13 years ago, at 2:25pm on Friday, February 24, 2006, a three-vehicle al-Qaeda attack group approached the Hamra gate to the Abqaiq oil processing...
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The Taliban’s top trumps
Paul Rogers | Updated at 12:00am on November 18, 2018
THE current war in Afghanistan has just entered its nineteenth year....
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No way to run the world
Paul Rogers | Updated at 12:00am on November 10, 2018
TWO reports by Swiss banks, published within a week of each other, offer further revealing evidence on the growth of a wealthy transnational overclass. Credit...
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Policing Islamism: a fatal disconnect
Paul Rogers | Updated at 12:00am on October 21, 2018
THE radical preacher Anjem Choudary was released early on October 19 from Belmarsh high-security jail in south-east London, having been moved there from Frankland prison...
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A war of minds: beyond 2001-18
Paul Rogers | Updated at 12:00am on October 15, 2018
THE column published 17 years ago this week reported on the start of the United States’s war against the Taliban in Afghanistan....
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Trump follows, DPRK-Iran lead
Paul Rogers | Updated at 12:00am on September 29, 2018
IN THE United States’s entanglements with North Korea and Iran there is a common factor: the current initiative belongs not to Washington but to these...
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Putin’s wargame: behind the smoke
Paul Rogers | Updated at 12:05am on September 15, 2018
RUSSIA’S massive Vostok-2018 military exercises in 11–17 September are receiving much attention in the western media, all too easily conjuring a spectre of the Russian...
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Netanyahu and Israel’s (in) security
Paul Rogers | Updated at 12:00am on September 12, 2018
THE previous column in this series looked at the Israeli government’s concern about the risk of the pro-Palestinian leader of Britain’s Labour Party, Jeremy Corbyn,...
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Taliban from enemy to ally
Paul Rogers | Updated at 12:00am on August 05, 2018
BEHIND the scenes, a remarkable new alliance is being sought in Afghanistan....