• Ukraine’s New Military Advancement in the Russia Ukraine Conflict

    In an address on Saturday evening, it has been revealed that Ukrainian forces have reportedly advanced 1,1558 square miles into the Kharkov region, signalling the first counter-offensive since Russian troops were driven from Kyiv at the beginning of the invasion. President Zelenskky has said that Ukrainian troops had already...
  • Dominic Raab Questioned On The Handling Of The UK’s Withdrawal From Afghanistan

    Grace Cloughton In the wake of the fall of Kabul and the conclusion of foreign evacuation efforts from Afghanistan’s capital, Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab faced MP questioning over his handling of the UK’s withdrawal from Afghanistan. Grace Cloughton explains the details. Yesterday’s committee, led by Tory MP Tom Tugendhat,...
  • Taliban Reach Kabul: What’s Next For Afghanistan?

    The speed at which the Taliban advance has swept across Afghanistan has worried and captivated the world's attention over the past few days, leading many to question how they have been able to reclaim territory with such ease, with many citing a significant failure of western forces. Grace Cloughton...
  • Israel And Palestine: A Very Short History.

    The Arab-Israeli conflict is one of the longest and most controversial matters plaguing the world today. It is often gone unspoken about, but the eviction of the Jerusalem Palestinian neighbourhood of Sheikh Jarrah and the violence that came as a result has been the subject of the latest surge...
  • Are We Turning A Blind Eye And Becoming Desensitised To Conflict?

    One of the first things we do every day is check our social media, where we are faced with the latest ‘breaking news’, often a barrage of negativity - conflict, the rising coronavirus death toll, natural disasters, terrorist attacks, school shootings and violence against peaceful protests – a sensory...
  • A Student’s Guide to Understanding Middle Eastern Conflicts: Israel/Palestine

    While it’s important to keep up to date on current affairs and world politics, sometimes it’s almost impossible to understand exactly what’s happened in the past and what’s going on now – especially when it comes to conflicts in the Middle East. In these articles, Impact Features writer Natalie will try to...
  • Only eleven countries are not involved in global conflict: World War III

    “Humanity needs to weep, and this is the time to weep,” declared Pope Francis at a World War I commemoration service last week. He described how “even today, after the second failure of another world war, perhaps one can speak of a third war, one fought piecemeal, with crimes,...