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National security/terrorism analyst

This image of a bullet-ridden Range Rover in the Staatsliedenbuurt has become the symbol of the underworld war in Amsterdam. (ANP)

3 November, 2019

The drug conflict in the Netherlands [EN]

Het beeld van een met kogels doorzeefde Range Rover in de Staatsliedenbuurt is het symbool geworden van de onderwereldoorlog in Amsterdam. (ANP)

3 November, 2019

Het drugsconflict in Nederland [NL]

The attacks on Saudi energy giant Aramco's Abqaiq processing plant and Khurais oil field halved the kingdom's oil output.

29 September, 2019

The Iran–Saudi Arabia cold war is getting hotter

Islamic fighters from the al-Qaida group in the Levant, Al-Nusra Front, wave their movement’s flag at a parade at the Yarmuk Palestinian refugee camp, south of Damascus, on July 28, 2014. (Rami Al-Sayed/AFP/Getty Images)

15 September, 2019

Al-Qaeda 18 years after 9/11

Taliban fighters last year in Nangarhar Province in Afghanistan. (Parwiz Parwiz/Reuters)

8 September, 2019

Deal(ing) with the Taliban

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and United States President Donald John Trump before their meeting at the Metropole hotel in Hanoi, February 27, 2019. (Leah Millis/Reuters)

1 September, 2019

Why U.S.-North Korea relations are worsening (again)