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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....