The St Valentine’s Day Charade: Khalifa Haftar, the cause of and main actor in, Libya’s second civil
In April this year, Libyan warlord Khalifa Haftar declared that he would ‘push the (Libyan government) out of Tripoli’. Since then, he...
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Rory O'Keeffe
Dec 14, 20173 min read
US advice on Turkey risks wild misunderstandings; skirts with disaster
US national security advisor HR McMaster has claimed that Turkey is ‘funding and encouraging’ extremist Islamic and terror organisations....
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Rory O'Keeffe
Dec 10, 20172 min read
'Defeat' of IS does not end Syria's war
Syrian journalist and activist Bahia al Mardini dismisses claims that Bashar al Assad has ‘won’ the war in Syria, and calls for democracy...
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Rory O'Keeffe
Oct 30, 20174 min read
Sahel force; an exercise in folly
The UN meets today to discuss the formation of a five-nation, 5,000 soldier armed force to operate across the Sahel and into Libya. The...
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Rory O'Keeffe
Oct 22, 20175 min read
Syria: the future
IS appears to have suffered further set-backs in Syria, with the announcement by the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF – a US-backed...
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Rory O'Keeffe
Oct 17, 20172 min read
Iraq and Yezidis: troops seize Sinjar
Iraqi and Iranian-backed forces have seized the Yezidi city of Sinjar, where in August 2014, IS committed one of its most horrific...
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