Our permissive friendship with Wahhabism
Will Theresa May maintain Britain’s friendship with Saudi Arabia while its brand of radical Islam continues to be exported to other countries?
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We spoke to the President of Kosovo, Vjosa Osmani and started by asking about her response to more British troops joining the NATO’s force in the country.
A battalion of UK troops is standing ready to join the NATO peacekeeping force in Kosovo, following rising tensions in the region. The US has called on neighbouring Serbia to pull back what it says is a large military build-up along the border, describing it as ‘very destabilising’. Some 50,000 Serbs living in northern Kosovo…
We speak to Viola von Cramon, the German Green Party MEP who is the European Parliament’s Kosovo rapporteur.
NATO has said it will deploy additional forces to Kosovo, following clashes between peacekeeping troops and ethnic Serb protesters which left dozens injured.
We spoke to the Kosovan President Vjosa Osmani and asked her if the distressing scenes from the ongoing war in Ukraine reminded her of what took place in her country in the late 1990s.
As British singer Rita Ora is made an honorary ambassador for Kosovo 23 years after leaving the country, Krishnan Guru-Murthy talks to her about identity, refuge and the politics of home.
The Serbian Foreign Minister criticises the Kosovan Prime Minister after a draft report claims he was one of the key players in the trafficking of Serbian prisoners’ organs after the 1998-99 conflict
We spoke to the retired US General Wesley Clark. He was the Supreme Allied Commander of NATO at the time of the organisation’s operation in Kosovo.
He was awarded the Distinguished Service Order for his leadership of Nato forces in the Kosovo War and headed the British Army during the invasion of Iraq. But back in 1971 General Sir Mike Jackson was a captain in the Parachute Regiment serving in Belfast, with specific responsibility for press relations. And today he gave evidence at…
If the Gurkhas really want equality then their usefulness should be subjected to the same objective scrutiny lavished on other regiments and corps, writes former soldier Doug Beattie.
Doug Beattie recounts his experience at the battle of Garmsir ten years ago when he fought alongside Afghan Major Sher-Wali against the Taliban.
Will Theresa May maintain Britain’s friendship with Saudi Arabia while its brand of radical Islam continues to be exported to other countries?
New figures show the scale of the migration surge facing the European Union, with asylum seeker numbers reaching a record high.
Is this really the biggest refugee crisis since 1945? What are the facts behind the headlines?
This has been one of the longest and toughest holy months for Muslims living in Europe, with some fasting 20 hours a day in the summer heat.