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Friday, 10 January 2020
The latest twists in the story of the crash of Ukrainian Airlines Flight 752 outside Tehran in the early morning …
Continue reading "Ukrainian Airlines tragedy leaves Tehran dangerously isolated"
By Robert Fox
Wednesday, 8 January 2020
The Iranian missile strikes on two American bases in Northern Iraq were supposed to draw a line under the crisis …
Continue reading "Trump’s anti-strategy is causing chaos in Iran"
By Robert Fox
Friday, 3 January 2020
The drone strike that killed Iran’s principal strategist General Qassem Soleimani and his Iraqi deputy, Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, the commander …
Continue reading "Soleimani strike – Trump rips up his own playbook"
By Robert Fox
Thursday, 2 January 2020
The dispatch of 3,750 US paratroopers to Iraq, following this week’s attack on the Baghdad embassy, seems proof that US …
Continue reading "The US is being sucked back into the Middle East"
By Robert Fox
Thursday, 2 January 2020
The foreign policy and defence review proclaimed by Boris Johnson in the election campaign and the Tory manifesto is to …
Continue reading "Britain needs a realistic new foreign and defence policy"
By Robert Fox
Thursday, 12 December 2019
Today there is another turning point election – this time to choose a new president of Algeria, the tenth oil …
Continue reading "Algeria elections – the beginning of the end for Le Pouvoir"
By Robert Fox
Monday, 2 December 2019
Professor Sir Michael Howard, who has just died at 97, was the greatest practitioner of military history, an inspiring teacher …
Continue reading "Sir Michael Howard obituary – the greatest practitioner of military history"
By Robert Fox
Monday, 4 November 2019
The oppression of the Uighur people, the Turkic minority that have inhabited China’s far western region of Xinjiang for millennia …
Continue reading "Europe’s silence on China’s treatment of the Uighurs shames the West"
By Robert Fox
Tuesday, 15 October 2019
Turkey’s offensive into northern Syria, operation ‘Peace Spring’ is to go on – for the time being – according to …
Continue reading "Kurds betrayed by the West will find a way to survive"
By Robert Fox
