Middle East

Whilst war rages in Gaza, a new front has just opened 180 miles away along the border between Israel and Lebanon with Israeli forces launching a ground offensive against Hezbollah, an armed Lebanese group. The attack is the culmination of decades of conflict and hostility between Israel and the...

On 10th October, the UK government imposed sanctions on senior security and political figures in Iran, as well as the country's 'Morality Police’. This decision followed the murder of Iranian citizen Mahsa Amini through police brutality, which sparked protests and outrage across the world. Lorenzo Capito discusses these sanctions...

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...

Last weekend, 15-16th November, new British political party Left Unity held their conference. One of the proposals in particular caught the eye of right-wing bloggers such as Paul Staines, aka Guido Fawkes, who posted a video of ‘Looney’ ‘Left Unity debating backing ISIS.’ The proposed amendment (which in fact...