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Kyle W. Orton

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Kyle Orton is a Middle East analyst.

Comment: The recent spillover of the PKK's operations into Europe suggests it's time to reassess the organisation's actions, writes Kyle Orton.

15 March, 2018

Comment: If Trump has any one guiding principle, it is to be the anti-Obama - and on foreign policy, there are worse doctrines, writes Kyle Orton.

21 December, 2017

Comment: Despite his promises, Obama failed to act when Assad 'crossed the red line'. Will the Syrian regime's chemical massacre push Trump into action? asks Kyle Orton.

06 April, 2017

Comment: The moral cost of allowing Assad's forces and allies to behave as they choose is being an accomplice to the mass-murder in Aleppo and empowering extremism, writes Kyle Orton.

14 December, 2016

Comment: Only Assad and al-Qaeda were helped by the truce in the first place, writes Kyle Orton.

21 September, 2016

Comment: The overtly sectarian nature of the offensive against IS in Iraq threatens to play directly into the hands of IS, writes Kyle Orton

13 June, 2016

Comment: London's Boris Johnson praised a 'vile tyrant' for taking over Palmyra from IS, naively obscuring the complicity of Assad in the rise of IS, argues Kyle Orton.

29 March, 2016

Comment: Creating a new state along the border with Turkey would only create further chaos in the brutal violence, writes Kyle Orton.

17 March, 2016