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Newstalk ZB: Three striking things about Trump’s al-Baghdadi announcement

Mike Hosking, from New Zealand radio station Newstalk ZB, talked to Yan St-Pierre about the death of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the leader of the Islamic State.

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Should they stay or should they go? What to do with detained Foreign Fighters

It is and will be one of the hottest topics in the field of security in 2018: Should foreign fighters – especially those who pledged allegiance to ISIS – be allowed to return to their home countries? Yan St-Pierre explains the pros, cons & risks and gives his advice.

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2015: Exposing the Giant’s Feet of Clay and the Return of International Diplomacy

The year 2015 picked up where 2014 had left off: with a myriad of conflicts. The wars in Syria, Iraq, Libya and Ukraine are still in full swing, and the “Islamic State” still controls huge swats of territory in the middle-east. (Photo: Yann Caradec / flickr.com / CC BY 2.0)

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ORF: Interview with Yan St-Pierre on Iraqi hostages

Joanna Bostock, reporter with FM4 of Austrian radio station ORF, asked Yan St-Pierre for his analysis of the Iraqi hostage raid recently performed by US special forces and Iraqi Kurdish Peshmerga forces.