Roland Oliphant

5 days ago | telegraph.co.uk | Roland Oliphant

It was only a game. But this 2023 exercise conducted in Washington illustrated just how easily the current global crises could escalate into nuclear war. So where might a nuclear war start exactly? What would it look like? And how many of us would survive? There are many potential flashpoints. This week, we were reminded of the perils of escalation when India and Pakistan launched tit-for-tat air, missile and drone attacks following the deadly terrorist attack in Indian-controlled Kashmir.

6 days ago | yahoo.com | Roland Oliphant

Three weeks before special forces stormed the British hideouts of a suspected Iranian terror plot, Vahid Beheshti received an unexpected visit from anti-terror police. The exiled Iranian journalist, who has been living in a one-man protest camp outside the Foreign Office for more than two years, braced himself for an argument about street sleeping. But that was not what the officers wanted to talk about. Instead, they gave him and his wife an exhaustive four-hour briefing on security precautions.

6 days ago | telegraph.co.uk | Roland Oliphant

A suspected terror plot by Iranians to attack the Israeli embassy in London has led to renewed calls for Labour to proscribe Iran's IRGThree weeks before special forces stormed the British hideouts of a suspected Iranian terror plot, Vahid Beheshti received an unexpected visit from anti-terror police. The exiled Iranian journalist, who has been living in a one-man protest camp outside the Foreign Office for more than two years, braced himself for an argument about street sleeping.

6 days ago | telegraph.co.uk | Roland Oliphant |Venetia Rainey |Tim Stanley

Amid the election of the first ever American Pope, Robert Prevost, who will be known as Pope Leo XIV, Roland Oliphant looks at the rise of a new force in American politics: MAGA Catholics. Vice President JD Vance, First Lady Melania Trump, and of course Steve Bannon - Trump's first term chief of staff - are among the best known names in Washington.

1 week ago | ca.news.yahoo.com | Roland Oliphant

Cyril Radcliffe (left) and the last Maharaja of Kashmir, Hari Singh - Getty Images and AlamyOn July 8 1947, a senior British barrister called Cyril Radcliffe arrived for the first time in India and was handed an impossible job.