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Dec 3, 2024 | 
atlanticcouncil.org | Alia Brahimi
Arms Control Artificial Intelligence China Defense Policy Drones Security & Defense Weapons Trafficking Air force for hire In Season 2, Episode 7 of the Guns for Hire podcast, host Alia Brahimi chats with mercenaries expert Alessandro Arduino, a top China analyst. They discuss recent seismic leaps in Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) technology and how the cost of drone defense is a magnitude greater than drone offense.
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Nov 13, 2024 | 
newsweek.com | Alia Brahimi
CLOSE X Share✓ Link copied to clipboard! Despite Russia's invasion of Ukraine and the outstanding International Criminal Court arrest warrant for Russian President Vladimir Putin, the UN secretary general attended the BRICS summit in Russia and "seemed happy to be filmed on arrival." The BRICS alliance, whose gathered leaders represented almost half of humanity, has undoubtedly discovered a new confidence and momentum.
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Oct 23, 2024 | 
atlanticcouncil.org | Alia Brahimi
Conflict Crisis Management Defense Industry Human Rights Middle East Syria Sledgehammer: The Wagner cult in Syria In Season 2, Episode 6 of the Guns for Hire podcast, host Alia Brahimi chats with defense researcher Jack Margolin about his new book on the Wagner Group. They focus on its operations in support of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and the country’s central place within the Wagner subculture.
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Sep 26, 2024 | 
atlanticcouncil.org | Alia Brahimi
Conflict Crisis Management Human Rights Iraq Middle East Security & Defense Borrowed servants: Private military companies and sadism at Abu Ghraib In Season 2, Episode 5 of the Guns for Hire podcast, host Alia Brahimi is joined by international lawyer Katherine Gallagher to discuss her litigation efforts against a prominent private military company (PMC) for war crimes at Abu Ghraib.
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Jul 30, 2024 | 
atlanticcouncil.org | Alia Brahimi
Conflict Defense Industry Iraq Middle East Security & Defense ‘I was a Blackwater mercenary in Iraq’ In Season 2, Episode 4 of the Guns for Hire podcast, host Alia Brahimi is joined by former Blackwater—rebranded as Academi— contractor Morgan Lerette in a wide-ranging conversation.
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Apr 29, 2024 | 
newsweek.com | Alia Brahimi
This month, the UN Special Envoy for Libya, Abdoulaye Bathily, resigned his position with visible frustration. Bathily was charged with delivering the troubled country to long-delayed elections, as it remains politically and militarily divided between east and west, but the peace talks were performative from the start.
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Apr 24, 2024 | 
atlanticcouncil.org | Alia Brahimi |Mark N. Katz |Shahira Amin
Conflict Defense Industry Middle East Security & Defense Terrorism The Gulf Yemen American Hit Squad in Yemen In Season 2, Episode 1 of the Guns for Hire podcast, host Alia Brahimi is joined by the award-winning BBC investigative journalist Nawal Al-Maghafi to talk about her film exposing American mercenaries in Yemen. One of the few journalists to report from Yemen first-hand, Nawal discusses the Delaware-registered private military company (PMC) contracted by the UAE to kill “terrorists”,...
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Mar 29, 2024 | 
foreignpolicy.com | Alia Brahimi
Foreign & Public Diplomacy Military United States On March 25, the United States took the highly unusual step of abstaining in a vote at the U.N. Security Council that called for a cease-fire in Gaza after six months of a relentless Israeli military campaign.
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Jan 10, 2024 | 
atlanticcouncil.org | Alia Brahimi |Mark N. Katz |Shahira Amin
Conflict Crisis Management Defense Industry Israel Lebanon Middle East Politics & Diplomacy Russia Security & Defense Syria Mercenaries and Gaza In Season 1, Episode 10 of the Guns for Hire podcast, host Alia Brahimi is joined by Renad Mansour, an expert on Iraq, Iran, and allied groups. As the region convulses from the war in Gaza, they begin by assessing reports that the Wagner Group has been tasked with transferring a Russian air defense system from Syria to Hezbollah in Lebanon. They go...
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Dec 18, 2023 | 
atlanticcouncil.org | Rachel Friedman |Ksenia Svetlova |Alia Brahimi |Kenda Hawasli
Iran Iraq Israel Lebanon Libya Middle East Morocco North Africa Peacekeeping and Peacebuilding Politics & Diplomacy Saudi Arabia Security & Defense Syria The Gulf Turkey 2023: A year in the Middle East 2023 was a tumultuous and tragic year for the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). This year saw the outbreak of wars in Sudan and between Israel and the Gaza Strip, devastating natural disasters in Morocco, Libya, Syria, and Turkey, and a crackdown on protestors and women in Iran. 2023 also...
