counterinsurgency Archives

The Battle of Algiers: Decolonisation & the War on Terror

The Battle of Algiers, a 1966 film that poetically captures Algerian resistance to French colonial occupation, is widely considered one of the

Azfar2021-06-01T20:20:42+00:00February 12th, 2018|Events|

Ethiopia’s Liyu Police commit war crimes under banner of ‘War on Terror’

*Image of Liyu Police In June last year, Ethiopia’s paramilitary force, the Liyu Police, in retaliation for the wounding of one of

Azfar2021-07-10T15:27:58+00:00April 13th, 2017|Articles, CAGE Africa|

Towards a closed society: The worrying themes of the leaked OSCT PREVENT Catalogue

Recently, transparency group Public Interest Investigations published the leaked Home Office document entitled “Prevent Strategy – Local Delivery Best Practice Catalogue”. The

Azfar2021-08-10T20:44:32+00:00January 24th, 2017|Articles, CVE (Countering Violent Extremism), PREVENT|

14 years after 9/11, and the War on Terror still runs on Cheney’s 1% doctrine

By Dr Adnan Siddiqui Bin Laden killed, Mullah Omar dead, Zawahiri in hiding and the alleged architect of the 9/11 attacks Khalid

Azfar2018-03-23T15:14:56+00:00September 11th, 2015|Articles|