Russia and Iran have won Syria. They might not like what comes next.
Adnan R. Khan: The Russians and Iranians are in full control now. But their victory will leave them dangerously exposed in a devastated country.
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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.
Does the U.S. have any idea what it’s doing in Syria?
Adnan R. Khan reports from Turkey, where American bumbling in Syria is creating a potentially hazardous situation with its key NATO ally
The most dangerous thing Donald Trump has done yet
Adnan R. Khan on why Trump’s moves against a nuclear-armed, highly unstable Pakistan are a bigger threat than Iran or North Korea
What really happened to Joshua Boyle and his family
In a series of interviews before his arrest, he described in detail how his family’s ordeal began, and how their five years in captivity really ended
How the fight to defeat ISIS sparked a new battle in Iraq
Adnan R. Khan: Canada put its military resources behind the Kurds to take on ISIS. Now it’s seeing the ugly results.
2014-2017: An obituary for ISIS
Adnan R. Khan: The so-called Islamic State has fallen. Its caliphate has crumbled, but its ideological fervor lives on.
A ’Great Disaster’ has just descended on Iraq
Adnan R. Khan reports from Kirkuk on the takeover of the city by Iraqi forces and how it has opened the door for a new insurgency
A whole new war is about to hit Iraq
Adnan R. Khan: A civil war is suddenly looming between Iraq and the Kurds—and Canadian forces could find themselves on the front lines
Justin Trudeau’s grossly misleading take on Iraq
Adnan R. Khan: Canada armed and trained the Kurds. To compare their independence vote to Quebec is a ploy to wash Canada’s hands of a mess it helped create.
The cautionary tale of Germany’s growing far-right
Adnan R. Khan on why it’s not fascism or even racism that’s driving the surprising success of the German far right. Canada should take notice.