Update on Ibrahim Bah, Charles Taylor’s gun and diamond runner
As reported here last week, Ibrahim Bah, the man who for years managed the transit of weapons from Liberia into Sierra Leone in...
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Michael Petrou
Senior writer Michael Petrou has covered conflict across the Middle East, Africa, and Central Asia. He is the author of ’Renegades: Canadians in the Spanish Civil War’, which was shortlisted for the Ottawa Book Award, and ’Is This Your First War? Travels Through the Post-9/11 Islamic World’, which won it. He has a DPhil from the University of Oxford.
Iraq: Ten years later
Eight images that revisit the sites of the war’s most iconic photos
Taliban peace negotiations: tarting up a betrayal
If anything positive can come out of recent moves toward “peace negotiations” between the United States and the Taliban, it is...
Top gun runner for Charles Taylor arrested in Freetown
Ibrahim Bah acted as a liaison for the former Liberian dictator
Iran’s election: hold your applause
Michael Petrou on the cautious optimism that greeted the country’s election results -- cautious being the key word
Follow the money
Universities receive funds from alleged Iran government front
America, Russia and Syria: so much for the reset
How arming the opposition will intensify American conflict in other regions
Follow the money
Canadian universities are receiving funds from what U.S. prosecutors allege is a front for the Iranian government
Little choice in Iran
The last round of presidential elections spurred a bloody and brutal crackdown. This time, Khamenei’s regime is not taking any chances.
Remembering a massacre in Iran
MPs vote on a motion to condemn the massacre of 5,000 Iranian political prisoners