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Jordan is a bastion of peace in comparison to many other states the Middle East. Relatively stable, the most the country has endured in recent years was a short lived rumour of political revolt against the king, allegedly plotted by his half-brother. Almost 5 million tourists per year came to Jordan pre-COVID, to see the […]
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The United Kingdom must lead mediation Qasem Soleimani is no martyr. To lament his death would be to turn a blind eye on the fact that, as highlighted by PM Boris Johnson, he had ‘British blood on his hands’. Mr. Johnson, however, fails at accurately displaying the sheer barbarity of Mr. Soleimani’s actions while serving […]
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Image description: Qasem Soleimani International co-operation is the only solution Boris Johnson’s government is right to offer cautious support to the U.S. over the Iran issue, but moving forward we must seek an international solution to promote peace across the wider region of the Middle East. It is, of course, important to recognise that the […]
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The liberation of Mosul and the continued fight against the last few pockets of Daesh resistance in Iraq is at best a bittersweet affair. While Iraqi Prime Minister, Haider Al-Abadi, attempted to bask in his term’ s most shining moment, it must have been clear to him that the fight for Iraq’ s security had […]
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The Vietnam War ended not with a bang but a whimper. On 29th April 1975, from the rooftop of 22 Ly Tu Trong Street in District 1 of Saigon, a ladder was erected. A group of South Vietnamese people desperately tried to reach a US helicopter; they were US allies and the next day the […]
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Last year in September, over 100,000 people marched through the streets of London for a rally in support of refugees. The event was organised by the charity Solidarity with Refugees, which organised another march a year on this September welcoming refugees. Rosalind Ereira is the founder of Solidarity with Refugees. Her involvement with both marches […]
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In his last state of the union address Barack Obama renewed his commitment to “use every element of national power” to support the United States’ allies, and to “mobilize the world” to in order to tackle matters of global security. Although this statement seems straightforward enough, it begs the question: who are America’s allies, exactly, […]
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NATO is the most powerful military organisation ever; the alliance spent over $1 trillion on defence last year, with the USA accounting for the lion’s share. It makes intuitive sense that all these expensive weapons should allow us to defeat poorly equipped groups like ISIS with ease. But that belief fundamentally misunderstands the nature of […]
Continue ReadingThis piece was written in response to Harry Gillow’s defence of the Iraq War, also written for OxStu, which can be found here. Harry Gillow is brave, if nothing else – it takes guts to try to defend the indefensible. But guts don’t guarantee a solid argument, and Mr Gillow’s “tentative defence” of the Iraq […]
Continue ReadingTen years ago to the day the first coalition troops entered Iraq; a month later, George W. Bush declared the end of combat operations, against the backdrop of a banner reading ‘Mission Accomplished’. Yesterday, car bombings in Baghdad killed 56 and injured over 200, the latest victims in a decade of violence estimated to have […]
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