The British government’s position is that this was a legitimate act of self-defence in a war zone. But there are other issues to examine.
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US and UK claim the man who bragged about decapitating western hostages has probably been killed in an airstrike.
Afghanistan has seen mass protests before, but Wednesday’s was different. In a show of national unity and support for the political system, protesters called for continued international help.
Assembled at the cost of billions of dollars, Iraq’s army has never amounted to much – and it’s not the first foreign-built military to fail so spectacularly.
Downing of the Russian Metrojet airliner shows how a hitherto little-known terror group and its Islamic State parent may be adapting their tactics.
Moscow’s mixed messages on the future of the Syrian president is fuelling speculation that it might be preparing to desert its long-term ally.
Whatever caused the crash of a Russian airliner over the northern Sinai, it’s finally brought the world’s attention back to a critical security crisis.
Tony Abbott’s initial post-prime ministerial public foray on the policy front has been narrow cast and hard line.
The former British PM did not go far enough with his apology.
With a high-stakes election just weeks away, any number of suspects are in the frame.
They’ve been persecuted for hundreds of years, and most recently by Islamic State – but the Yazidis now living in Iraq’s refugee camps are remarkably circumspect.
Relations between the two countries, once cordial, have been strained by Russia’s intervention in Syria.
Rather than being a proactive realignment, Australia’s shift in policy on Syria was a reactive realisation that it was being left behind.
Russia has started bombing some of the groups machinating against Bashar al-Assad’s forces. Who are they, and what do they want?
Despite a fierce exchange of rhetoric over Russia’s airstrikes in Syria, it makes sense for Moscow and Washington to coordinate their military intervention.
Why has Vladimir Putin stepped up his Syrian game so radically – and is it really all as sudden as it seems?
The real winners this week in international diplomacy have been Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin.
Whether it’s the Islamic State, the Ku Klux Klan – or, yes, even American political parties – groups use music in many of the same ways, for many of the same reasons.
Life in the caliphate wasn’t exactly as advertised for one group of former fighters.
Apart from numerous worldwide threats including from China, Iran, North Korea and Russia, the US is taking more notice of Africa due to the expansion of extremist organisations on the continent.
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Professor of Peace Studies, University of Bradford
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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Professor of International Politics, Clinton Institute, University College Dublin
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Senior Lecturer in History and International Relations, Curtin University
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Honorary Senior Fellow, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of International Relations, Lancaster University
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Professor, Department of Government, University of Essex
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Chair in Global Islamic Politics, Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation, Deakin University
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Research fellow at Alfred Deakin Institute, Deakin University
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Leverhulme Early Career Research Fellow, Department of Politics and International Studies, University of Warwick
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Professor of International Politics, Deakin University
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Associate Lecturer, Faculty of Social Science, The Open University
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