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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...

Rory O'Keeffe

Jul 16, 201915 min read

US national security advisor HR McMaster has claimed that Turkey is ‘funding and encouraging’ extremist Islamic and terror organisations....

Rory O'Keeffe

Dec 14, 20173 min read

Syrian journalist and activist Bahia al Mardini dismisses claims that Bashar al Assad has ‘won’ the war in Syria, and calls for democracy...

Rory O'Keeffe

Dec 10, 20172 min read

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...

Rory O'Keeffe

Oct 30, 20174 min read

IS appears to have suffered further set-backs in Syria, with the announcement by the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF – a US-backed...

Rory O'Keeffe

Oct 22, 20175 min read

Iraqi and Iranian-backed forces have seized the Yezidi city of Sinjar, where in August 2014, IS committed one of its most horrific...

Rory O'Keeffe

Oct 17, 20172 min read