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Turkey and Northern Syria part two: a ‘safe zone’ which will not long be either
We had intended to publish this yesterday, 7 October 2019, but as news broke of the Trump administration’s decision to ‘stand aside’ and...
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Rory O'Keeffe
Jul 31, 201934 min read
Idlib, Istanbul, Turkey and the EU: Review, 30 July 2019
2019 Statistics so far 1. New arrivals by sea 2. Transfers from the islands to mainland 3. Other removals from the islands 4. Detention...
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Rory O'Keeffe
Jul 16, 201915 min read
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
Jun 27, 201920 min read
The United Nations Does Not Exist: notes on the UN and humanitarianism for aid workers and other int
The United Nations does not exist. More to the point (though ‘more to the point’ may seem counterintuitive here), the UN Security Council...
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Rory O'Keeffe
Apr 6, 201829 min read
Greece - an ongoing, and growing, crisis
Arrivals to Eastern Aegean islands, 1 January – 4 April 2018, inclusive Lesvos, 3,079. Total arrivals since 30 March: 351. Chios, 397....
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Rory O'Keeffe
Jan 29, 20188 min read
Politicians, and the problem we face
Rob Wilson, the former UK Charities Minister, has used his column in the national newspaper the Daily Telegraph to attack an...
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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
Dec 8, 20175 min read
Hizbollah promises to leave Syria in exchange for Hariri continuing as Lebanese PM
Saad Hariri, Lebanon’s Prime Minister, has withdrawn his resignation from the role. We have noted in some detail the situation...
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Rory O'Keeffe
Nov 23, 20176 min read
Turkey, Iran and Russia: how war in Syria has changed three rivals, and what happens next
In a joint statement after talks in Sochi, Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Turkish and Iranian counterparts Recep Tayyip Erdogan...
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Rory O'Keeffe
Nov 17, 20172 min read
Russia uses vetoes to end investigations into Syrian chemical weapons use
Russia has used its veto at the UN Security Council for the tenth time in the almost seven years of the Syrian civil war, once again to...
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Rory O'Keeffe
Oct 27, 20171 min read
Assad 'used gas against Syrian civilians' - UN
The United Nations’ Joint Investigative Mechanism reports that Bashar al Assad launched sarin gas projectiles at Khan Sheikun, a...
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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 9, 20175 min read
The UN: defined by structural flaws
Former Nigerian President Goodluck Joanathan has told the Rhodes Forum that far from preventing wars, the UN has ‘only succeeded in...
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