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The government is looking at plans for failed asylum seekers whose appeals have been exhausted to possibly be sent to the Balkans.

Failed asylum seekers could be sent to the Balkans under plans being considered by the government.

He is the bestselling author of 23 books on foreign affairs and travel translated into many languages, including "The Loom of Time," "The Good American," "The Revenge of Geography," "The Coming Anarchy" and "Balkan Ghosts."

Colonel Phillips, who served 33 years in Army including in Iraq, Afghanistan, Northern Ireland and the Balkans, was appointed Wales' first veterans commissioner in 2022 by the previous Conservative UK government.

But the sizable Balkan territory once encompassed much of modern Bulgaria and parts of northern Greece and European Turkey, between the Black Sea and the Aegean.