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Iraqi Kurds fear Turkey’s post-Syria territorial goals

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IRAQ

Despite rivalry between the leading Kurdish parties of Syria and Iraq, the October 9 Turkish incursion into Syria sparked widespread anger among Iraqi Kurds. They fear a new…

Philippines China pivot to come under rising pressure

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PHILIPPINES

This, along with the reported presence of Chinese survey vessels at Benham Rise, is undercutting Duterte’s foreign policy pivot towards China. Moreover, the Benham incursions…

Security threats will bedevil Burkinabe government

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BURKINA FASO

Burkina Faso security challenges.

Chad’s president aims to ‘divide and rule’

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CHAD

Key rebel groups have welcome Deby’s appeal. However, the Front for Alternation and Concord in Chad (FACT), which killed President Idriss Deby in April, has set conditions for…

The Palestinian Authority faces existential threats

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PALESTINIANS

This followed the deaths of three Palestinians in an Israeli army incursion there on August 6, emphasising that the major two-day military assault on Jenin in early July failed to…

Turkey plans a short campaign against Syrian Kurds

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TURKEY/SYRIA

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan had signalled strongly that an incursion against the Kurds, whom he regards as terrorists linked to the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) in Turkey…

Another Israeli-Palestinian Gaza war could break Hamas

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ISRAEL/PALESTINIANS

Since Israel evacuated Gaza in 2005 and Hamas took control after winning the 2006 elections, there have been three conflicts, most recently in July 2014. The standard pattern is a…

Multiple pressures may focus Chadian rebel activity

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CHAD

On March 5, Chad closed its border with Libya and applied heightened security restrictions in the north. This follows a major incursion in February by Chadian rebels from Libya…

ASEAN will proclaim limited trade progress at summit

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ASEAN

The meeting comes against the backdrop of a diplomatic spat between Vietnam, Cambodia and Singapore over Vietnam’s 1978 military incursion into Cambodia. South-east Asian leaders…

US to tread cautiously on security support to Nigeria

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NIGERIA/US

Nigeria-US military ties.