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Terror insurgency or Christian genocide? Inside Nigeria’s security crisis
Nigeria is facing a security crisis. Extremist violence, mass kidnappings and deepening food insecurity has created what the UN has called the countr…
5 months, 3 weeks ago
Europe is mobilising to face Russia. Is the UK falling behind?
French President Emmanuel Macron has announced the return of military service in the country, 25 years after mandatory national service was phased ou…
5 months, 3 weeks ago
Inside Ukraine-Russia talks: Britain's Kissinger, Putin's enforcer and Trump's envoy
Donald Trump’s latest effort to end the war in Ukraine unleashed a week of diplomatic turmoil.
And some of the most dramatic diplomatic twists and tur…
5 months, 3 weeks ago
Why cutting aid to buy bombs is making us less safe
With conflicts raging around the world, aid budgets are being slashed in favour of defence spending.
But experts are warning that cutting aid may not…
5 months, 4 weeks ago
China bosses vanishing as Xi Jinping’s childhood traumas trigger Mao style purge
Xi Jinping is the most authoritarian and longest serving Chinese leader since Mao - and probably the most powerful man on earth. But what makes him t…
6 months ago
Nato is running out of TNT. How did we fall behind Russia and China?
TNT, the unglamorous but indispensable ingredient of modern warfare, is now in critically short supply and Britain is feeling the consequences. A new…
6 months ago
Indiscriminate weapons: how wars became so deadly for civilians
More children are being killed by explosive weapons than at any other time in history, according to a major new report by Save the Children and Imper…
6 months ago
Biggest US military buildup since Cuban Missile Crisis puts Latin America on edge
America is flexing its muscles in the Caribbean and the world is holding its breath. Washington has trained its sights on Socialist-run Venezuela, an…
6 months, 1 week ago
Trump and the ex-terrorist: why the West needs Syria to work
The Syrian civil war raged for years, wrecked a nation, and then quietly vanished from the headlines. Last December, a jihadist faction once aligned …
6 months, 1 week ago
Inside the bloody work of tracking war crimes from space
For more than two years a vicious civil war has been raging in Sudan. It’s been defined by massacres, rapes, displacement, and starvation.
As the UN …
6 months, 1 week ago