U.S.-China Tensions and Beijing’s Show of Strength in the Taiwan Strait
In recent weeks, record numbers of Chinese fighter jets have entered Taiwan’s Air Defence Identification Zone in what appears to be a deliberate show of strength by Beijing. This comes at a time when ...
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Cameroon's Forgotten Anglophone Conflict
For almost five years, Cameroon’s western provinces have been wracked by a deadly separatist insurgency. In 2016, Anglophone protesters took to the streets angry at the increasing use of French in cou...
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Lebanon is Falling Apart
Lebanon is in the midst of what the World Bank describes as what could be one of the worst economic crises of the past 150 years. Over three-quarters of the population have been plunged into poverty, ...
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Could Talking to Mali's Jihadists Bring Peace?
The war in the Sahel appears to have reached a stalemate. In Mali, fighting pits the Malian security forces, backed by regional militaries and French special forces and airpower, against an al-Qaeda-l...
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Avoiding Another Afghanistan: Could Al-Shabaab Seize Power in Somalia?
Many people in the Somali capital Mogadishu watched with apprehension as the Taliban seized control of Afghanistan. Could Somalia, struggling against its own Islamist insurgency -- Al—Shabaab -- face ...
24 Sep 202143min
License to Kill: Lawyering in the War on Terror
Only days after the 9/11 attacks, Congress ushered in extraordinarily broad legislation that authorised President Bush to use military force in order to eliminate terrorist threats to the U.S. In this...
16 Sep 20211h 11min
Al-Qaeda and ISIS Twenty Years after 9/11
On the eve of the twentieth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, a new episode of Hold Your Fire! looks at the shadow cast by the “global war on terror” across South Asia, the Middle East and Africa. Rich...
10 Sep 202142min
Afghanistan: the Islamic State, still no Taliban government and a looming humanitarian catastrophe
After days of chaos at Kabul airport, including an attack by the Islamic State’s local chapter, the last American plane has left, ending the Americans’ twenty-year war against the Taliban. As yet, the...
3 Sep 202147min
