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Ranj Alaaldin

@RanjAlaaldin

Ranj Alaaldin is a Visiting Scholar at Columbia University and a Doctoral Researcher at the London School of Economics and Political Science, where he focuses on Iraq and the Middle East. He previously specialised in the law of armed conflict and the use of force.

Citizens leave carnations near the site of the blast
Voices

Turkey's reaction to the Isis attack on Istanbul is damaging

Ranj (far left) meets Margaret Thatcher as a child
Voices

Cameron needs to lead like Thatcher in Syria

A trail of flames is seen behind the jet after it was struck by the Turkish military
Voices

Beware Turkey's real reasons for shooting down a Russian plane

Supporters of Turkey’s President Erdogan at a rally in France last week
Voices

Erdogan must be stopped in Turkey before Isis gets stronger

A picture taken from the Turkish side of the border in Suruc, Sanliurfa province, shows a Turkish solider standing as smoke rises from the Syrian town of Kobane
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Turkey's bombing campaign in Syria and Iraq is the last thing we need

Isis fighters have set fire to oil wells northeast of the city to obstruct the assault
Comment

Iraq has begun its campaign to rid itself of Isis — and it must go

Kurds celebrate as they drive along a street in Diyarbakir, southeastern Turkey, on January 26, 2015
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Isis has finally been defeated in Kobani — but what happens next?

Iraqi volunteer fighters celebrate the breaking of the jihadist siege on the Shiite town of Amerli on September 1, 2014
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Bombs can't defeat Isis, but Iraq's Sunnis can

Iraqi Kurdish Peshmerga fighters look on as smoke billows from the town Makhmur, about 175 miles north of the capital Baghdad, during clashes with Isis militants
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If Iraq is to survive, then it must be divided into separate regions

Bashar al-Assad has given his first American TV interview in two years, and denied his regime was behind the Damascus chemical weapons attack
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Why Obama was right to call chemical weapons a ‘red line’

Iraqis inspect the site of a car bomb attack in Baghdad's impoverished district of Sadr City last month
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Blame Iraq, not America, for sectarian civil war

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