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Published in: openSecurityHow the US created the Afghan war - and lost itThe unreported story of how the Haqqani network became America's greatest enemy.
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Published in: openSecurityYemen in the frame, againThe toll of violence in Yemen continues unabated—if largely unreported. And unless the international community...
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Published in: openSecurityAutodefensas: the solution to Mexico's drug problem?Illegal drug trafficking is deeply embedded in Mexico. Collusion between the state and ‘self-defence’ groups is not,...
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Published in: openSecurityBoko Haram: time for an alternative approachMilitary responses to Boko Haram have proved ineffective, as the latest atrocities in Nigeria highlight. An...
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Published in: openSecurityNegotiating with the Taliban
No one should expect progress in Afghanistan anytime soon, enmeshed as it is in a complex web of interaction among...
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Published in: openSecurityObama, Saudi Arabia and “anti-terrorism”
Last week the US president, Barack Obama, visited Saudi Arabia. Fighting extremism, the crisis in Syria, and Iran's...
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Published in: openSecurityYemen’s troubled transitionIn Yemen a transition towards a new political dispensation is threatened by Islamist violence, drone strikes,...
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Published in: openSecurityMexico: terror and “terrorism”A little-noticed security reform in Mexico threatens a major erosion of liberty by exploiting public fear to...
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Published in: openSecurityPakistan: prospects poor for Taliban talks
The announcement of talks between Islamabad and representatives of the Pakistan Taliban surprised many. Few will...
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Published in: openSecurityEgyptian editors organise to confront media crisis
The military-backed government has sought to enrol journalists as foot-soldiers in its battle against the ousted...
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Published in: openSecurityBritain, Turkey and trading human rights for 'counter-terrorism'openSecurity was inspired by a 2005 conference in Madrid on the anniversary of the Atocha station bombings, marked...
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Published in: openSecurityIraq’s Sunni civil war
Iraq’s Sunnis have become increasingly alienated from its Shia-dominated government. Al-Qaeda has been able to...
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Published in: openSecurityRethinking the origins of 9/11As 2013 came to an end ‘9/11’ continued to cast a violent shadow in Iraq and Afghanistan. Yet the US response...
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Published in: openSecurityMandela: explaining the magnetismWhile the world stops for Nelson Mandela’s departure from it, his iconic status is unquestioned. Yet there is a more...
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Published in: openSecurityForgotten woes: Sri Lanka’s neoliberal politics
In light of Commonwealth support for the upcoming Heads of Government Meeting to be held in Colombo this November,...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKTen years ago today in Baghdad
Ten years ago today in Baghdad a terror attack blasted apart the UN headquarters in Iraq... At the moment of the...
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Published in: openSecurityTerror in the wake of Woolwich
The aftermath of the Woolwich murder casts a worrying light on how Muslims are perceived and terrorism is defined in the UK.
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Published in: openDemocracyUKThe Woolwich attack in Britain demonstrated an evolving and more rational terror
The Woolwich attack can be seen as a more scrupulous, even moral, development within terror tactics. It tells us...
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Published in: HomeWoolwich and Afghanistan: the connection
An understanding of the link between the shocking murder of a young soldier on a London street and "remote-control"...
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Published in: openSecuritySri Lanka's BBS: an old spectre in new garb?
Though interreligious violence in Sri Lanka is not new, the emergence of the well-organized, well-connected Buddhist...
