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Jun- 2018 -1 JuneAfrica
Decades after the end of empire, Portugal’s military returns to Africa in a new role
Decades after Portugal ended its more than 500-year-old empire in Africa, the Portuguese military has returned in force, from Mali to Somalia, and now Central African Republic
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May- 2018 -29 MayCommentary
Trump’s nuclear weapons policy? He doesn’t have one
The North Korea nuclear talks demonstrate that Trump takes an ad-hoc approach to nuclear issues, but there is no wider policy controlling what he does
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26 MayCommentary
Project Maven does not make Google evil
As controversy rages over Google working with the U.S. military to include its AI software in American drone programs, Saahil Dama argues that regulation of autonomous weapons systems – not prohibition – is key
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25 MayAsia Pacific
A war over water: Fall of Farah exposes a new proxy front in Afghanistan’s conflict
Iran is seen to recognize western Afghanistan as its ‘area of influence’ where it identifies development activities such as the building of dams as competition rather than cooperation
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24 MayMiddle East
SDF captures prominent French ISIS member Adrien Guihal in Syria
Another French jihadist allegedly involved in attacks in France, Adrien Guihal, was arrested by a special unit of the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces in northern Syria
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23 MayCommentary
Korean Spring: The ‘battle of wits’
Although he is no Sicilian, North Korean leader Kim Jong-un is playing a similar “Battle of Wits” with the West over his country's nuclear program, Col. David Murphy says.
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22 MayAsia Pacific
A shortcut to heaven: How women and children became suicide bombers in Indonesia
A desire to enter heaven together motivated three Indonesian women to join their husbands in forcing their children to carry out suicide attacks
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21 MayMiddle East
US troops unlikely to withdraw from Syria after ISIS defeat in Deir Ezzor
US troops are unlikely to leave Syria after defeating ISIS in Deir Ezzor despite tough talk from President Trump and Turkey's calls for the SDF to leave Manbij, Wladimir Van Wilgenburg reports
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19 MayMiddle East
High-value target captured by SDF isn’t ISIS spokesperson Abu Hasan al-Muhajir
Reports that the Syrian Democratic Forces backed by the U.S.-led Coalition against Islamic State captured the group's spokesperson Abu Hasan al-Muhajir in a raid in Eastern Syria are untrue, a spokesperson for the Coalition said
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18 MayAsia Pacific
Chinese air force lands first bomber on disputed Woody Island in South China Sea
The People’s Liberation Army Air Force of China landed an H-6K bomber aircraft on the disputed Woody Island in the South China Sea for the first time
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