What makes Colombian mercenaries so interesting?
Send Alia a Text Message Host Alia Brahimi speaks with Dr Andrés Macías, a Bogota-based expert on Colombian mercenaries. They begin by discussing the explosive case of 26 Colombian nationals arrested...
29 Maj 202447min
American hit-squad in Yemen
Send Alia a Text Message In the season two opener of the Guns for Hire podcast, Alia chats with Emmy award-winning BBC investigative journalist Nawal Al-Maghafi about her film exposing American mercen...
24 Apr 202448min
Mercenaries and Gaza
Send Alia a Text Message In Episode 10 of the Guns for Hire podcast, host Alia Brahimi is joined by Renad Mansour, an expert on Iraq, Iran and allied groups. As the region convulses from the war in Ga...
9 Jan 202449min
What's Charlie Sheen got to do with it?
Send Alia a Text Message In episode nine of the Guns for Hire podcast, host Alia Brahimi speaks with the Russia analyst Sergey Sukhankin about the 2019 arrest in Libya of the Wagner Group political op...
28 Nov 20231h 2min
Prosecuting the Wagner Group
Send Alia a Text Message Lawfare is the use of legal systems for strategic advantage. One of its pioneers, the international human rights lawyer Jason McCue, joins host Alia Brahimi on episode eight o...
26 Okt 202347min
Tracking mercenaries
Send Alia a Text Message As humans share more of their experiences online for the world to see, the blank zones are shrinking. In episode seven of the Guns for Hire podcast, host Alia Brahimi is joine...
21 Sep 202337min
Semtex teddy bear: The mercenary build-up in Libya
Send Alia a Text Message Host Alia Brahimi is joined by the Libyan security expert and Atlantic Council Nonresident Senior Fellow Emadeddin Badi. They discuss the surge of African, Syrian and Russian ...
24 Aug 202348min
Mercenary bloodline: The war in Sudan
Send Alia a Text Message In this bumper episode on the war in Sudan, host Alia Brahimi speaks with the former US government expert on Sudan, Cameron Hudson, about the mercenary pedigree of the Rapid S...
6 Juli 20231h 6min
