Ghost ships: how Iran avoids US oil sanctions
At around 2 am on July 4, the Panamanian flagged Iranian tanker Grace 1 was boarded by British Royal Marines off the coast of Gibraltar at the mouth of the Mediterranean. The Marines from 42 Command...
17 Jul 201917min
The Minnesota model for fighting ISIS in the US
In Northern Syria tens of thousands of women and children are now living in squalid, overcrowded camps. Thousands more military aged men have been corralled into Kurdish jails. Hundreds of them had le...
11 Jul 201927min
Locusts: battling the great plague
The first written records of locust swarms are over 3 millennia old. Today, international organisations work to prevent the formation of these swarms that devour their own body weight in food every da...
4 Jul 201926min
Iraq could face another summer of bloodshed
Hundreds of protesters converged on the streets of the southern Iraqi city of Basra last week. Demonstrators across the province are calling for structural change to fix rampant corruption, a stagna...
27 Jun 201923min
Tanker attacks straight from Iran’s playbook
On June 13th, two more tankers were attacked in the Gulf of Oman, just over a month after four vessels off the coast of the Emirate port at Fujairah. The USA blames Iran for the attacks and has sent o...
21 Jun 201918min
Life in Afghanistan during America's longest war
On October 7, 2001 US forces invaded Afghanistan in response to the devastating 9/11 attacks by Al Qaeda from bases in the Afghan mountains. Although this drove the Taliban from power in a matter of d...
13 Jun 201930min
Exporting ISIS justice
This week on Beyond the Headlines, we look into the growing number of European ISIS fighters captured in Syria and ask what should Europe do with them? France has agreed to allow eleven ISIS fighte...
7 Jun 201933min
A queue in Everest's death zone
After a photograph of a queue of climbers waiting to summit Mount Everest went viral, we explore what risks this poses for climbers and sherpas. Eleven deaths have been recorded on the mountain so f...
31 Mai 201913min
