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 tick, and what does is upbringing tell us about his ...
24 Marras 202533min
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 parliamentary report warns that the UK’s war-fight...
21 Marras 202528min
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 Imperial College London.It’s clear there has been a shif...
19 Marras 202527min
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, and the arrival of the colossal USS Gerald Ford has s...
17 Marras 202533min
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 with Al-Qaeda toppled Bashar al-Assad’s dictatorshi...
14 Marras 202541min
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 has long said, it is one of the worst humanitarian ...
12 Marras 202540min
'Worse than war with Israel': Why Iran's regime is on edge
Sanctions, nationwide protests, even Israeli airstrikes haven’t broken the Iranian regime. Could a drought finally bring the Islamic Republic to its knees?Iran is running out of water and now the pres...
10 Marras 202535min
Germany is finally rearming against Russia. Can it go fast enough?
Germany is rearming, and fast. A sentence that once sent shivers down Europe’s spine is now a shocking reality. This isn’t the Germany of old; it’s a nation powering up for a new era of danger. With P...
7 Marras 202542min
