This week, Iran carried out a military strike on Israel for the first time, sending a barrage of 300 missiles and drones into Israeli borders. Tehran spent two weeks telegraphing their intentions of carrying out an attack in response to Israel killing 16 people in an air strike on an
Since late February, Haiti has seen its worst month of violence since fighting began in the Caribbean country in 2019. What originally began as a protest over assassinated President Jovenel Moise’s delay in relinquishing power has now transformed into a conflict that has triggered nationwide chaos. Violence in the last
War in Central Africa between the armed forces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the M23 rebel group, based in the country’s North Kivu region, has escalated since January. Dozens have been killed and hundreds of thousands displaced in the past few weeks. Tensions in Eastern Congo are
As 2024 begins, Argentina has a new President; the effortlessly controversial Javier Milei. The former TV pundit, who has been nicknamed ‘The Madman’, won the Argentinian election last November on controversial promises to abolish the Argentinian central bank, cut social spending, dollarise the economy, and among other things, re-establish Argentina’s
Since the end of October, anti-military groups in Myanmar have had major progress in their conflict against the military, who took power and removed democracy from the country after a violent coup in 2021. This recent push has been named ‘Operation 1027’, made by three different ethnic armed groups based
Saudi Arabia is an extremely important country in the international community. Due to the incredible amount of oil present in the region, it is one of the wealthiest and most influential states in the world. However, in the last few years, the country has started to diversify its economy, given
For the first time in 55 years, a member of the Bongo family is not in charge of Gabon. The eighth coup in three years for former French colonies in Africa has seen former President Ali Bongo deposed by the military. President Bongo, who took over the Gabonese Presidency from
Since January, Israel has been split in two. The Middle Eastern country has been experiencing seven months of intense protest from citizens in opposition to the government’s recent passing of new ‘anti-democratic’ legislation. Hundreds of thousands of Israeli’s have taken to the streets in opposition to the President, Benjamin Netanyahu’s,
In the 1880s, the Argentinian Army began a campaign with one sole purpose: to subjugate the Indigenous people of the northern region of Chaco. This campaign murdered and displaced thousands. The survivors, from communities like the Qom and Moqoit, were forced to live on plantation compounds, growing cotton and other
The mainstream global media are always quick to report on incidents of terror attacks when they take place in the West. Unfortunately the same cannot be said outside of the West, as terror attacks that take place in many other regions of the world rarely make headline news. Just a
The Russian conflict in Ukraine has shifted international relations in many different ways. For one, it has seen Europe address the possibility of no longer importing gas from Russia. This would be a way for the region to oppose Russia without feeling the effect of a retaliation from President Vladimir
The war in Ukraine has dominated the majority of global media outlets over the last few weeks, and for good reason. This unprecedented conflict is the largest in Europe since World War II. However, its impact spreads much further than Europe and has even influenced China and Taiwan. The two
Since 2015, the country of Burkina Faso, situated in West Africa, has been in a conflict with an Islamic insurgency, which originally spread from neighbouring Mali and has ties to both Al-Qaeda and Islamic State. Over the last 7 years, many in the country have become increasingly frustrated with the
On January 15th, 44-year-old Malik Faisal Akram held four people, including a rabbi, hostage at the Congregation Beth Israel synagogue in Colleyville, Texas for a total of 10 hours. While all four of Akram’s hostages thankfully made it out unharmed, Akram himself was shot by members of an F.B.I. SWAT
Since last October, tensions between Taiwan and China have remained high. While this has not yet turned into a conflict, it seems as if U.S. support of Taiwan will no longer act as a deterrent against a possible Chinese invasion of the island nation. This presents a problem for Taiwan,
On August 2021, 20 years since it was last in power, the Taliban took control of Afghanistan once again. Following the withdrawal of the last American soldier, the group has enjoyed the last five months without opposition to its rule. This has resulted in severe consequences for the Afghans who
Despite having stated that the second period of loan payment relief, which was meant to end next February, would be the last for American university students, President Joe Biden recently announced that he will pause student loan repayments for a third time. This third relief period will last for a
Ever since Ukraine left the Soviet Union in 1991, relations between Ukraine and Russia have been tense. Officially, both states have been at war since 2014, yet tensions are reaching a peak now, in 2021, with both states amassing soldiers on their shared border. The number of Russian troops is
Since late 2020, severe droughts in East Africa during the last three rainy seasons have put much of the wildlife and the lives of millions in Somalia, Kenya, and Ethiopia at risk. This has been the worst case of regional drought since 2011, and it is expected to last until
Last weekend, news emerged of a new variant of Covid-19, named B.1.1.529, or ‘Omicron,’ from the southern African regions of Botswana and South Africa. It was initially thought to have been identified amongst four vaccinated people in Botswana, suggesting that the variant may be more ‘immune’ to the vaccine than
