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Patrick Cockburn has been covering West Asia as a journalist for nearly 40 years and thus has personally witnessed the “chaos and conflict” that have characterised this region throughout this period. The book looks at the present-day conflict zones in West Asia— Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Yemen, Bahrain and Libya— and the early rise and successes of the Islamic State.
Each section consists of a short introductory essay that places the conflict in context and then goes on to Cockburn’s contemporary notes on the various developments that shaped the emerging conflict, as viewed by him at the time. The book is embellished
