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    Afghanistan: 17 years too late

    News, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 31/01/2019

    » 'The Taliban have committed, to our satisfaction, to do what is necessary that would prevent Afghanistan from ever becoming a platform for international terrorist groups or individuals," said Zalmay Khalilzad, the US Special Representative for Afghanistan Reconciliation, on Tuesday. So why didn't the United States have this discussion with the Taliban 17 years ago, in October 2001?

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    Venezuela sits on civil war knife-edge

    News, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 09/08/2017

    » There are two stories about the assault on Fuerte Paramacay military barracks in Carabobo state on Sunday. The Venezuelan government says that about half the 20 attackers were killed or captured, and the rest are being hunted down. Sgt Giomar Flores, who defected from the Venezuelan navy in June and now lives in Colombia, told The Guardian that the attack had been "a complete success".

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    Despite 'total victory', no peace yet in Iraq or Syria

    News, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 22/07/2017

    » The shooting was still going on down by the river last week when Iraq's Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi dropped by and prematurely declared that the battle for Mosul was over. He was misled by the various Iraqi army, police and militia units who were competing with one another to declare victory first, but now it really is over -- and there is little left of Mosul.

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    The North Korea crisis: Why now?

    News, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 11/05/2017

    » Apart from Donald Trump's need for a dramatic foreign policy initiative, is there any good reason why we are having a crisis over North Korea's nuclear weapons testing now?

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    Trump, WikiLeaks and doing business with Russia

    News, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 11/01/2017

    » When a Fox News reporter asked Donald Trump about WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange back in 2010, just after Mr Assange had released a huge cache of secret US diplomatic cables, the reality TV star had no doubts: "I think it's disgraceful, I think there should be like the death penalty or something."

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