Sitrep August 11th 2016

PRESENTER THIS WEEK: TIM COOPER SITREP TRAIL THURS, 11th August In Afghanistan - could the Taliban be about to take back control of Lashkar Gar? In Syria – a humanitarian crisis emerges and Assad launches barrel bomb strikes Russia re-boots its armed forces, there’s no junk and it's all hi-tech. And, an audience with the Chilcot Report...The Iraq Inquiry gets the Edinburgh Fringe treatment. PRESENTER THIS WEEK: TIM COOPER Studio guest: BFBS Defence Analyst Christopher Lee OTHER INTERVIEWS: 11th August AFGHANISTAN Military analyst Eric Grove and BFBS defence Analyst Christopher Lee. SYRIA Fawaz Gerges is Professor of International Relations at the London School of Economics RUSSIA TURKEY Military analyst Eric Grove and BFBS defence Analyst Christopher Lee. RUSSIA CAPABILITY Deputy Supreme Allied Commander Europe, General Sir Richard Shirreff. CHILCOT AT THE FRINGE BFBS reporter, Ali Gibson at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. THURSDAYS at 4:30pm UK TIME on BFBS RADIO 2 and at 6:30pm UK TIME on BFBS & UK Bases You can listen on BFBS Radio 2 at 1630 (UK time) and at 1830 (UK time) on BFBS (via web, App & DAB in the UK and on FM in Scotland, Colchester, Salisbury Plain, Aldershot, Catterick & Blandford Forum) Sky Channel 0211 Alternatively listen again on the website, or download the Sitrep Podcast.