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Guest post by Søren Schmidt, PhD and Researcher at The Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS).
Afghanistan– a new Vietnam or a new Iraq?
Lecture for The Danish Societ for Central Asia, University of Copenhagen, November 10, 2009.

Introduction. We have now been in Afghanistan for eight years. The government seems to be [...]

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by Rasmus Christian Elling.
Jondollah, a Baluchi militant group, has executed 16 Iranian police officers. Now, Tehran accuses Saudi-Arabia of supporting Sunni terrorism in Iran’s restive southeastern border area.
Jondollah (also spelled Jundullah, Jundallah, etc.) – ‘God’s Army’ in Arabic – has been active for at least four years. Its young leader Abdolmalek Rigi is Iran’s most [...]

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