CONFLICTED
An ex-Al Qaeda jihadi turned MI6 spy and a former monk turned filmmaker, have been embedded at the heart of conflicts in the Middle East. Together Aimen Dean and Thomas Small unpack the realities of war, fundamentalism and their global implications through first-hand experience.
26
🚨 Emergency Episode: The Iran War Has Begun 🚨
53 min
27
African Slavery: The Untold Story
46 min
28
Conflicted Revisited: Spying for Saudi
77 min
29
The People Who Became Arabs
52 min
30
Trump, Netanyahu, and the Iran Endgame
53 min
31
How the US is Abandoning its Afghan Allies
47 min
32
The CIA’s Zero Units in Afghanistan
46 min
33
Why China’s Rise Cannot Be Stopped
61 min
34
Trump vs Iran: The War That Wasn’t
60 min
35
Paul Kenyon: 30 Years Under Fire as a BBC War R...
54 min
36
Mali: When Jihadists Win
50 min
37
Syrian Blitzkrieg: How Damascus Crushed the SDF
51 min
38
Trump vs USAID: The Rise and Fall of America’s ...
50 min
39
How Yemen Broke the Saudi-UAE Alliance
81 min
40
Crisis in the Gulf: Saudi vs UAE
48 min
41
Re-Thinking Islam’s Global History
55 min
42
The Crisis in Iran: The History Behind US-Iran ...
52 min
43
Zohran Mamdani and the Ascendancy of Third Worl...
75 min
44
2025 Year in Review
48 min
45
Inside the Trenches of Ukraine
78 min
46
2025 Conflicted Christmas Special
45 min
47
What Trump’s 2025 National Security Strategy Me...
56 min
48
The 2026 Middle East Forecast
48 min
49
What the U.S. Gets Wrong About the Muslim Broth...
59 min
50
Saudi Arabia’s New Bargaining Chip
51 min