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Sam Kiley has been a foreign correspondent for more than three decades, winning awards for his often controversial coverage of conflicts across four continents, including the civil war in Somalia, the Rwandan genocide, the fall of Yugoslavia, the Iraq and Afghan wars, Russia's invasions of Ukraine, and the horrors in Israel and the Palestinian Territories.

His main interest is in explaining the most complex issues by mining deeply into the historical causes of conflicts—and the economics that continue to drive them. Humanitarian aid can save lives; it can also kill. Syria's warring factions are driven by ideology and religion but fueled by crime and smuggling.

With a long record of investigating intelligence and security matters, Kiley has a healthy respect for the limitations of spy agencies—and outright disdain for the personal intelligence of most national leaders. Stupidity has strategic consequences.

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