RAF denies dropping opium seeds in support of CIA

Speaking to the Canary, a spokesman from the British Royal Air Force (RAF) denied claims that its planes had engaged in covert airborne missions to drop opium poppy seeds into Afghanistan on behalf of the CIA — America’s principal intelligence service. No records of RAF C-130s supporting a...

UAE ties to Tanzania under scrutiny

The UN is deeply concerned about the state’s killing and jailing of protestors in Tanzania. Many are still missing. Following febrile national elections on 29 October, president Samia Suluhu returned to power. UN human rights lead Turker Volk said: I strongly urge the Tanzanian authorities...

US embraces ex-Al-Qaeda commander leading Syria

As a war on terror veteran, if you’d told me a few years ago that Al-Qaeda would be invited to the White House in my lifetime I’d have laughed in your face. Yet that is what has just happened… sort of. And it’s not that I don’t agree with the assertion that the West was...

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