Syria

Following 13 years of civil war, Syria has been liberated from the Assad family’s 50-year authoritarian regime. Within a mere 11 days, Syria’s capital, Damascus, fell to the Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) rebel group, ultimately forcing the Syrian government to withdraw and the Assad family to seek asylum within...

A review of the current stalemate and the future prospects for the Syria which is now 2/3rds under the rule of President Bashar al-Assad....

Annabel D’Monte Recently, I’ve felt like I have been consuming so much mindless television that my brain has started to turn to mush. So, in an attempt to rectify this I decided to watch something a little different. I began searching for something more meaningful that would inform and...

After becoming the face of Jihad in 2014, Abu Bakr Al- Baghdadi committed suicide on the 27th October 2019, during a US special forces raid on his hideout in Syria. The irony in Baghdadi’s death compared with his apparently extreme (to say the least) morals on pride, strength and...

In mainstream media we are often told that the refugee crisis we are experiencing today is the worst the world has seen since after the end of the Second World War, conjuring up images of poverty, war-torn nations and a lack of justice. But besides the occasional news report...

This week on David Cameron’s crusade to fulfil his somewhat sordid desire to become the Iron Lady that this country deserves: matters turn away from the Tories often criticised domestic affairs and become international. In the wake of the largest migrant crisis since WW2 and the abhorrent terror attacks in...

Hundreds of people, including students from the University of Nottingham, gathered around the Brian Clough Statue on 2nd December 2015 to protest against the Syrian air strikes. The gathering took place at 5:30 p.m. yesterday in response to the 174 majority vote in the House of Commons, announced just hours before,...