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Published in: HomeBarack Obama, Muslims and IslamismThe United States president has put better relations with the Muslim world at the heart of his foreign policy. The...
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Published in: openSecuritySpain agrees to take in former Guantanamo Bay inmates
Spanish government agrees to house former terrorist suspects. Sydney bomb plotters sentenced. Tymoshenko accuses...
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Published in: HomeBosnian voice, Yugoslavian memory
The sense of justice and consistency of principle of the Bosnian activist Mladen Grahovac should be a...
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Published in: openSecurityMI5 denies withholding evidence on torture victim
The director general of MI5 writes an impassioned defence of his service, denying allegations of lying to...
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Published in: HomeAfghanistan: propaganda of the deed
The deluge of publicity about a large-scale military operation against the Taliban must be set against Afghan...
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Published in: openSecurityNigeria needs more than Goodluck to avert crisis
Nigerian Vice-President Goodluck Jonathan named acting president in bid to resolve crisis. Claims emerge of...
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Published in: 50.50Guinea-Conakry: the price of political rape
The transition to democracy in Guinea-Conakry is both a lesson and a warning to those who would wield rape as an...
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Published in: openSecurityOperation Moshtarak a crucial test for Obama's Afghan war strategy
Operation Moshtarak a crucial test for Obama’s Afghan war strategy. Protestors clash in Sri Lankan capital....
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Published in: openSecurityFrance approves sale of high-tech warship to Russia
International concern about sale of French amphibious warship to Russia. US aims for new sanctions on Iran “within...
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Published in: openSecurityIraq and the fig-leaf of just war theoryDissension over the legality of the Iraq war, and the history of western military interventions since 1945, reveals...
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Published in: HomeIraq's shadow over Afghanistan
The Barack Obama administration’s plans for subduing the Taliban are endangered by continuing insecurity in Iraq
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Published in: openSecurityFears of influx of militants prompts Kenya to tighten security on Somali border
Kenya tightens security on its north-eastern border with Somalia. Troops deployed as violence intensifies in...
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Published in: openSecurityAf-Pak: what strategic depth?
Pakistan's military and political class have obsessed over gaining 'strategic depth' in Afghanistan for years, but...
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Published in: openSecurityUS military personnel killed in Pakistan school blast
US military personnel die in bomb blast in Pakistan as a record rise in drone attacks and militancy grips the...
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Published in: openSecurityIran takes critical stance on US missile defences
Iranian officials attempt to discredit US missile defence deployments. China warns Obama over meeting with Dalai...
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Published in: 50.50Meeting in monochrome: women and the Afghanistan conference
The picture said it all; an expanse of suits broken only by Hillary's blonde bob floating in their midst. The London...
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Published in: openSecurityIsrael admits to using white phosphorous in Gaza
Israeli government disciplines soldiers responsible for the white phosphorous attack on a UN compound in Gaza....
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Published in: openDemocracyUKChecking Blair's 'calculus of risk' - WMDs and regime changeAt the Chilcot inquiry, Blair claimed the risk of terrorists being supplied WMDs by rogue states justified a policy...
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Published in: HomeAfghanistan: the politics of war
The American-led effort to map Afghanistan’s future neglects the role of the country’s neighbours – and could yet be...
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Published in: 50.50Negotiating with the Taliban: the view from below
While the only official woman delegate in the Afghan mission to the London Conference pleaded that women’s rights...
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