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Published in: openSecurityThe enduring spectre of chemical weapons in IraqThe US's failure to destroy the remnants of Iraq's chemical weapons stock, along with many others, haunts as ISIS...
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Published in: openSecurityAleppo's souq: witness to the modern Syrian stateAleppo, once Syria's economic heartbeat, bears testimony to the historic diversity and associated vibrancy a...
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Published in: openSecurityAfter fleeing barrel bombs, the long wait for UN aid beginsThe Syrian regime is in the business of inflicting suffering on civilians; their cooperation is valuable to aid...
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Published in: openSecurityLibya, Syria and the “responsibility to protect”: a moment of inflection?Since the Rwandan genocide and the wars in former Yugoslavia, the idea of a “responsibility to protect” vulnerable...
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Published in: openSecurityPolicing academia: exporting 'expertise', importing marketisationManchester Metropolitan University is working with the Qatari government to train Qatari police officers. What does...
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Published in: openSecurityThe new Russian power blocA quarter century after Mikhail Gorbachev supervised the collapse of Europe’s cold-war division, a world of new...
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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: openSecurityThe heavy imprint of America's 'light footprint'New documents reveal the blinding pace of US military operations in Africa as the Pentagon prepares for future wars.
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Published in: openSecurityWomen’s rights under threat in Iraq
Few disagree that the Iraqi government’s increasingly Shia character has alienated its Sunni population—but what has...
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Published in: openSecurityOn the frontline: citizen journalism in SyriaAs the Syrian civil war moves into its fourth year, citizen journalists have filled the gap left by professionals...
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Published in: openSecurityQatar: FIFA must actPressure has mounted on FIFA to address the toll of deaths among migrant workers in Qatar, as the emirate prepares...
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Published in: openSecurityLebanon and the Syrian refugee crisisIt wasn’t as if Lebanon didn’t have troubles enough, with a shaky government finally formed last month. But the...
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Published in: openSecurityHarper’s discordant notesUnlike the US, Canada has always had a positive reputation in the strife-tone Middle East as an impartial broker and...
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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: openSecurityTurkey’s new internet law: policing the online mallSince the protests in Gezi Park eight months ago freedom of expression has coming under increasing attack, both on...
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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: openSecuritySyria: from corridor diplomacy to humanitarian corridors
With the larger substantive issues of ceasefires and political transition at an impasse, the ground broken over...
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Published in: openSecurityYemen’s future: like Tunisia or Libya?The recent conclusion of the National Dialogue Conference in Yemen might seem to point to progress in that fractured...
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Published in: openSecurityViolence against women in Syria: a hidden truthDespite saturated media coverage of the conflict, violence against women in Syria has largely gone unreported. Often...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaHamas’ response to the Syrian uprising
Are we now witnessing a third phase in Hamas’s response towards the Syrian Uprising?
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