Turkey and the EU plan to stop the next wave of Syrian refugees
Critics assert that the EU is trying to buy its way out of the refugee crisis
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Adnan R. Khan
Adnan R. Khan has been on the ground for Maclean’s in some of the world’s most unfriendly places, from Pakistan to Iraq, writing about conflict, politics, society, and the occasional vacationing tips in Afghanistan. He claims to be based in a small cabin somewhere on Turkey’s Mediterranean coast though no one can definitively prove it.
The Iranian republic we don’t know
Behind the troubled regime is a nation desperate for change, having to make progress stealthily
How cheap oil could bring down the Saudi royal family
Falling oil prices could signal massive change in the Middle Eastern kingdom
Prepare for a whole new refugee crisis in 2016
The defeat of ISIS will unleash a new flood of refugees just as nations try to seal their borders
What really fuels Islamic State?
It’s not just religious extremism driving ISIS fighters. There are some serious drugs, too.
Barack Obama’s doomed new war against drugs
With the DEA and the CIA often working at cross-purposes, observers say it’s a war that can’t be won
Why ISIS is more dangerous than ever
The Islamic State is on the road to collapse and is now lashing out. Will the West take its bait?
Canadian John Gallagher killed by Islamic State suicide bomber
John Gallagher, a former Canadian infantryman who was fighting Islamic State alongside the YPG, was profiled by Maclean’s months before his death
Abdullah Kurdi lost it all. Now in a whirlwind, there is no peace
The photograph of Alan Kurdi, dead on a beach, moved the world. Now, his father has become a pawn in the region’s intractable conflicts. It’s tearing him apart.
What’s become of Germany’s refugees?
With its big cities straining, refugees are being bused to remote rural towns and testing a nation’s tolerance