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8 August 1918: The turn of a coin in the Great War
News, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 07/08/2018
» On 8 Aug 1918, one hundred years ago tomorrow, it finally became clear who was going to win the First World War. Nine Canadian and Australian divisions, almost 200,000 men, attacked the German trenches near Amiens, deep in France -- and for the first time in the war, the German troops ran away.
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After the fall of Aleppo, a kind of peace?
News, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 30/11/2016
» Eastern Aleppo, the rebel-held half of what was once Syria's biggest city, is falling. Once the resistance there collapses, things may move very fast in Syria, and the biggest question will be: do the outside powers that have intervened in the war accept Bashar al-Assad's victory, or do they keep the war going?
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Is the Islamic State really on the verge of being crushed?
News, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 08/09/2016
» The word on the streets is that the Islamic State (IS or Isil to its many enemies) is going under. In January it lost control of the city of Ramadi in Iraq after a long siege; in June it also lost Fallujah. In March it lost Palmyra to Syrian government troops, and last month it lost Manbij in northern Syria to the US-backed Syrian Kurds after another long siege.
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Why Turkey shot down the Russian plane in a heartbeat
News, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 27/11/2015
» The key fact is that the Russian plane, by Turkey's own admission, was in Turkish airspace for precisely seventeen seconds. That's a little less time than it takes to read this paragraph aloud. The Turks shot it down anyway -- and their allies publicly backed them, as loyal allies must.
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