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‘Peace in our time’, Afghan style?

Why military interventions are hard to evaluate, especially ones in really broken lands like Afghanistan.

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Attack at Canadian Embassy in Kabul (June 20, 2016)

On this day in 2016, both the Taliban and ISIS claimed a suicide bomber who killed 16 locally-engaged security guards at the Canadian embassy in Kabul.

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A review of Caliphate – Episode 8 (Season Finale)

How realist is the depiction of ISIS in this first season of the Caliphate series? In this podcast, intelligence veteran and terrorism specialist Phil Gurski reviews Netflix Caliphate.

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Refugee camp leader hacked to death (June 18, 2018)

On this day in 2018, members of the Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army brutally dismembered a camp leader in Cox’s Bazaar, Bangladesh.

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A review of Caliphate – Episode 7

Calle calls Fatima in panic and demands that she and her contacts help get Lisha out. Pervin is devastated by the fight with Husam.

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Orlando Pulse Nightclub Massacre (June 12, 2016)

On this day in 2016, an ISIS-inspired terrorist opened fire in an Orlando, Florida, gay bar in June 2016 killing 49 and wounding 53.

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Canadian Intelligence Eh! Podcast

Podcast 45 – Christianne Boudreau: My child died fighting for a terrorist group

Imagine if your child ended up leaving home to join a terrorist group and died fighting for ISIS. Christianne Boudreau, joins Borealis to talk about what she went through and how she is trying to help parents.

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A rare look at what keeps CSIS up at night

We all know why CSIS is not an open book but when it does give us a peek behind the curtain we do learn a lot.

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Gunmen attack gun shops and army unit in Aktobe (June 5, 2016)

On this day in 2016, terrorists linked to ISIS carried out several attacks in the northern Kazakh city on Aktobe killing 20 people in shops and a military base.

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A review of Caliphate – Episode 6

Fatima runs surveillance on Nadir to see if he can lead her to information that will confirm her suspicions. Fatima has arranged Pervin’s escape from Syria.