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Global Talk: Ramifications of Soviet-Afghan war still felt in Iraq and Syria today - Ep 24

Global Talk: Ramifications of Soviet-Afghan war still felt in Iraq and Syria today - Ep 24

Update: 2015-06-30

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Dr Leah Farrall, a former counterterrorism analyst and co-author of the book, The Arabs at War in #Afghanistan, talks to The National about what the Soviet-Afghan war and the emergence of the #Taliban, Al #Qaeda and other terrorist groups teaches about militancy in the Middle East today, and the impact that #ISIL’s rise has had on Al Qaeda.

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Global Talk: Ramifications of Soviet-Afghan war still felt in Iraq and Syria today - Ep 24

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