CONFLICTED

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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. Read more

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Episodes

Guns, Greed and the Making of Modernity

07/07/2026 00:58:59Undiscovered: The Battle of Qala-i-Jangi

07/03/2026 00:36:09 The Bastard Children of Neoliberalism

06/30/2026 01:03:32The Middle East’s AI Arms Race

06/25/2026 00:56:53The Betrayal of the Iranian People

06/23/2026 01:09:37 Show all episodes

Our take on CONFLICTED podcast

Hosted by Thomas Small and Aimen Dean, a former Al Qaeda member. Conflicted covers topics like the war on terror, Islamist terror, Americans' adventures in the Middle East, among many subjects related to the conflicts in the region for over two decades. Aimen believes that the current actions were planned years back, and therefore the present situations are just an actualization of those earlier plans. He further explains how the rookies in the field are vulnerable; thus, their seniors take advantage of their unstable state of mind.