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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....

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  Syria’s wars: a new dynamic

  by Paul Rogers | Updated at 12:05am on February 20, 2018

  ISRAEL’S aerial strike against Iranian and regime targets in Syria on 10 February reinforces concern that a new front is opening in the Middle East’s...

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  Britain’s distant war

  by Paul Rogers | Updated at 12:05am on September 20, 2017

  BRITAIN is engaged in a major war, and has been for three years, yet very few people recognise this and there is little debate about...

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  ISIS: a war unwon

  by Paul Rogers | Updated at 12:05am on September 17, 2017

  IN THE past month, ISIS has suffered serious reversals in Iraq and Syria....

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  North Korea: the art of the deal

  by Paul Rogers | Updated at 12:05am on August 06, 2017

  NORTH Korea’s nuclear ambitions are causing widespread concern in the international arena...

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  The Zeus complex: against air war

  by Paul Rogers | Updated at 10:15pm on December 06, 2016

  THE assault on Aleppo by Bashar al-Assad’s forces continues, with appalling consequences. It may even now be reaching a climax, aided by the Russian air...