After the devastating toppling of the Sudanese civilian government in 2021 by both the paramilitary rapid support forces (RSF) and the Sudanese army, tensions began to rise in the region. There are...

On May 18, 2022, Sweden and Finland formally announced their wish to join NATO. This wish to give up decades of military neutrality quickly developed after Putin’s Russia attacked Ukraine on February 24th, 2022, leaving large parts of Ukraine in ruins. But we can’t be sure whether Sweden and Finland will actually be accepted into NATO since Turkey has already announced that it plans on vetoing the accession of the two Nordic countries. What exactly NATO is, why the Swedes and Finns have recently changed their views on it, and why Erdogan does not want them to join will all be discussed in this article.

Last week marked the 11-year anniversary of the devastating and still ongoing conflict in Syria. Rather than moving forward and finding a solution to this conflict, we instead see parallels between tactics...

Russia recently launched an invasion on Ukraine, attacking cities and bases as civilians are fleeing the area. The Ukrainian government has said that Russia pushed past the border for a “full-scale war”....

Introduction Since the fall of the Soviet Union and Ukraine becoming independent in 1991, a lot has happened in Eastern European politics. Ukraine has been forging increasingly close ties with the West,...

On November 25th, 2021, around 8:00 am, a coal mine in Listvyanka, Siberia, had an incident with an explosion. The explosion was caused when coal dust caught fire in a ventilation system, igniting the...

Introduction Since August 2021, thousands of immigrants have been camping on the Polish-Belarussian border. They have been trying to enter Poland and by doing so, also the European Union (EU). Belarus...

On February 3rd, Russian opposition leader, Alexei Navalny, was sentenced to two-and-a-half years in prison for allegedly violating probation terms, resulting in the largest protests that Russia has ever...

The April 7th chemical attack in the Syrian city of Douma has brought condemnation from many countries including the United States. The use of chemical weapons has been against international law since...