Battle Lines

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 Nov 25, 2023

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Across the world, from Europe to Asia, the Americas to the Middle East, tensions are rising between nation states. Traditional alliances and alignments are constantly evolving in the 21st century. An understanding of defence and security policy and the tides of political, social and economic changes is crucial for any informed understanding of our world.


2024 sees war in Europe and Israel, and elections in major economies, including the US, the UK, Taiwan, South Africa, and many others. Insurgencies flare in Yemen and Burma, tensions escalate in East Africa, and all around the world the international security architecture buckles under increasing pressure. 


With expert and experienced reporting on the ground from across the globe, Battle Lines combines on the ground reporting with analytical expertise to aid listeners to better understand the course of world politics and wars as the fault lines of global history grind and slip in an increasingly dangerous, and confusing, multipolar world. 


Battle Lines is the best of The Telegraph’s defence, security, and foreign reporting in one place.


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Episode Date
'I bought a drone and killed my boss - it was easy'
Dec 20, 2024
Why the Taliban won in Afghanistan
Dec 16, 2024
Inside Homs with Syria's White Helmets
Dec 13, 2024
A new dawn for Syria? Plus: Paul Conroy on reporting from Homs
Dec 09, 2024
Inside Russia's secret Libyan airbase
Dec 06, 2024
How Syria’s rebels launched a surprise offensive to retake Aleppo
Dec 02, 2024
The view from Kharkiv's frontline. Plus: Sudan’s war
Nov 29, 2024
Israel-Hezbollah ceasefire deal - is Gaza next?
Nov 27, 2024
Two women's stories behind the war in Gaza
Nov 25, 2024
Why are foreign fighters joining Myanmar’s civil war?
Nov 22, 2024
Hezbollah's latest blow. Plus: Trump and China
Nov 18, 2024
What do Trump’s appointments tell us about his foreign policy agenda?
Nov 15, 2024
Why reporting the Lebanon war is harder than Iraq or Syria
Nov 11, 2024
Trump's new world order
Nov 07, 2024
Will Iran attack Israel again? Plus Beirut's community kitchen
Nov 04, 2024
Will the US election spark a civil war?
Oct 31, 2024
Israel strikes Iran, plus inside Gaza's hospitals
Oct 28, 2024
Putin's new world order
Oct 24, 2024
What next for Hamas after Sinwar's death
Oct 21, 2024
China's wargames, a royal trip to Sudan border
Oct 18, 2024
Hezbollah drone attack, UNIFIL-Israel row, Russia and Iran deepen ties
Oct 14, 2024
Israel expands offensive in Lebanon, is Israel nuclear?
Oct 11, 2024
Israel's Oasis of Peace one year later
Oct 09, 2024
October 7 one year on: Hostages' relative, ex-soldier and journalist reflect
Oct 04, 2024
Iran strikes Israel as the IDF invade Lebanon
Oct 02, 2024
What next for Lebanon after Nasrallah assassination?
Sep 30, 2024
Israel prepares for ground offensive in Lebanon
Sep 27, 2024
Why Israel attacked Hezbollah and what will happen next in Lebanon
Sep 20, 2024
The world's forgotten war: Sudan
Sep 18, 2024
In memory of David Knowles, creator of Battle Lines
Sep 13, 2024
Mass protests in Israel & what's behind the rise of the far-right in Germany
Sep 06, 2024
Naval lessons from the Black Sea & how China’s enormous new invasion mothership rewrites the rules of war
Sep 03, 2024
Israel's West Bank raid & Al Qaeda linked attack in Burkina Faso
Aug 30, 2024
Ceasefire deal looms over the DNC, Taliban soldiers long for war
Aug 23, 2024
How does climate change lead to violence?
Aug 21, 2024
Diplomatic efforts to avoid full-scale war in the Middle East, Ukraine's incursion into Russia
Aug 16, 2024
Israel prepares for Iranian strikes, France’s view of Britain’s riots & political turmoil in Bangladesh
Aug 09, 2024
Assassinations of top Hamas and Hezbollah leaders rock the Middle East amid anarchy in Israel & Venezuela's disputed election
Aug 02, 2024
How tyrants fall
Jul 31, 2024
The future of the Israel-Gaza war & the geopolitics of the Olympic Games
Jul 26, 2024
How close is the world to nuclear war?
Jul 24, 2024
Political extremism in America, China's secret military base in Tajikistan
Jul 19, 2024
How to catch a Russian submarine
Jul 18, 2024
How will Labour govern, a look inside the NATO summit, shock French election
Jul 12, 2024
Chaos in an unprecedented US presidential race & the West Bank's medical crisis
Jul 05, 2024
Wikileaks' impact, China's crackdown in Tibet, Gaza update
Jun 28, 2024
Could Iran be due for yet another revolution?
Jun 26, 2024
Fareed Zakaria: Are we entering a new age of revolution?
Jun 21, 2024
Israel hostage rescue, far-right gains in EU election, judges resign in Hong Kong
Jun 14, 2024
What D-Day means for the future of international security
Jun 07, 2024
Labour's defence spending, devastating attacks in Rafah, South Africa goes to the polls
May 31, 2024
Anti-colonial riots in New Caledonia, humanitarian crisis in Sudan, oil rush in the South Pole
May 24, 2024
Assassination attempt on Slovakia's PM, Georgia protests controversial 'foreign agent' law
May 17, 2024
A war reporter reacts to the film 'Civil War'
May 15, 2024
Biden blocks weapons to Israel, the dire state of Iran's economy, war correspondent responds to Civil War film
May 10, 2024
Special report: What it’s like to be attacked by Beijing in the South China Sea, and why is China stockpiling gold?
May 03, 2024
"The Russians are definitely beatable, but it needs a coherent approach" : How to build an army in the 21st century
May 01, 2024
Will Israel invade Rafah and what's behind the protests in Georgia
Apr 26, 2024
The mood inside Iran as Israel plans retaliatory strike
Apr 19, 2024
Could Iran's strike on Israel lead to full-scale war in the Middle East?
Apr 15, 2024
Will Iran strike Israel, rebels winning war in Myanmar, NATO's Deputy Secretary General
Apr 12, 2024
Blood, chaos and suffering: Six month anniversary of the Israel-Gaza war
Apr 05, 2024
China's hacking campaign exposed, the Baltic states prepare for war & Tensions rise between Armenia and Azerbaijan
Mar 29, 2024
How would the EU react to a nuclear strike by Russia?
Mar 27, 2024
Famine in Gaza, Mongolia's valuable resources, Hong Kong's controversial new law
Mar 22, 2024
The war on Ecuador's gangs, famine in Sudan, captivity in Hamas' tunnels
Mar 15, 2024
Trump dominates Super Tuesday, Ramadan during war, chaos in Haiti
Mar 08, 2024
Israel ceasefire & a mother's dilemma over fleeing Gaza
Mar 01, 2024
The Kremlin's Cold War bid for global power
Feb 28, 2024
Invasion of Rafah, US push for ceasefire & two years of war in Ukraine
Feb 23, 2024
Pakistan's political turmoil & US plan for a Palestinian state
Feb 16, 2024
Inside the 'Oasis of Peace' in Israel
Feb 14, 2024
Israel rejects ceasefire, how Iranian drones changed warfare, and what's going wrong for China's economy
Feb 09, 2024
Israel wants security buffer zone in Gaza, Thai farmer taken hostage by Hamas, complexities of civil war in Sudan
Feb 02, 2024
Army chief says public face call-up if UK goes to war with Russia & hostage families protest in Israel
Jan 26, 2024
Iran & Pakistan trade airstrikes, Myanmar's civil war & who are the Houthis?
Jan 19, 2024
Blow to Beijing as Taiwan chooses candidate Xi fears the most
Jan 16, 2024
UK & US strike Houthi positions in Red Sea barrage and Ecuador in state of emergency after drug boss’s prison break
Jan 12, 2024
Drones, missiles and warships: the battle for the Red Sea
Jan 10, 2024
Israel continues Gaza assault, confrontation in the Red Sea & Taiwan goes to the polls
Jan 05, 2024
'The children ask me, Santa, are you coming, despite the war?'
Dec 23, 2023
'Christmas is officially cancelled in Bethlehem'
Dec 15, 2023
Israel attacks Khan Younis in the south & a dispatch from Gaza
Dec 08, 2023
'A nightmare I hope we can wake up from': A journalist from Gaza speaks out
Dec 06, 2023
'I want my baby back. I want my son back': Reflecting on a week of hostage releases
Dec 01, 2023
‘If the Middle East sneezes, Europe catches a cold': Interview with Lebanon's Minister for Foreign Affairs
Nov 28, 2023
'Torn between hope and fear': Israel's desperate families wait to hear if their loved ones are alive
Nov 23, 2023
Testimony of an October 7th survivor: ‘I knew at any second they might kill me’
Nov 21, 2023
Israel hunts for Hamas while Gaza's hospitals collapse
Nov 17, 2023
Israel 'cuts Gaza in two', disagreements with the UN & Gaza's hospitals on the brink
Nov 10, 2023
Urban warfare, the Merkava tank and taking the battle underground
Nov 06, 2023
Israeli troops push deep into Gaza & investigating Hamas' property portfolio
Nov 03, 2023
Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the economic impact of the war in Israel and Gaza
Nov 01, 2023
'Gazans are living through a bombardment like they've never experienced before'
Oct 31, 2023
Watching unedited footage of Hamas atrocities, on the ground in the West Bank, and China's wave of anti-semitism
Oct 27, 2023
"The smell of bodies hangs in the air" - reporting on the ground in Israel
Oct 20, 2023
Introducing Battle Lines: Israel-Gaza
Oct 20, 2023