Nagorno-Karabakh isn't in the Middle East or North Africa, but what happensin this Caucasus region both mimics, as well as has repercussions on what happens in the wider region. In this episode, Joshua Kucera of Eurasianet tells us the history of the conflict between Azerbaijan and Armenia in addition to explaining how it links to both Russia and Turkey and their relationship to eachother.

In this episode, we are joined by Fanar Haddad - author of 'Undertanding Sectarianism: Sunni-Shi'a Relations in the Modern Arab World' and a prominent researcher on Iraq's Popular Mobilization Units - to tell us about who the PMUs are, what they want and to what extent they are part of the state.

Jalel Harchaoui - a research  at the Clingendael institute at The Hague - gives valuable insights into who the main actors are in Libya, what they want and how likely it is that we are going to continue to see an escalation.

In this episode, we are joined by Jake Hanrahan - a conflict reporter and host of the Popular Front podcast - where we talk about Jake's experiences with the Kurdish insurgency inside Turkey during the breakdown of the Kurdish peace process (as well as talk for a bit about what happened to Vice and how Popular Front started).

In this episode, Aron Lund explains (as well as anybody can) who runs Syria - who we are talking about when we talk about Damascus - and what prospects look like for governance in Syria going forward.

In this episode, Alexander McKeever - formerly of Bellingcat and now working with Syrians for Truth and Justice - talks about Afrin. We go through the history of the region, why Turkey invaded, and what evidence there is of the groups now in control committing crimes including the destruction of heritage and grave robbery.