A blitzkrieg Russian invasion of Ukraine it was not. Marshall Zhukov, the Soviet Union’s famed tank general, must be rolling in his grave. Had...
How many American soldiers will die in the battle for Luhansk? Or Kerch? Not 1 in 1,000 Americans could find these drab Ukrainian industrial cities...
The US drone strike at Baghdad airport that killed Iran’s top commander, Gen. Qassem Soleimani, and a senior leader of Iraq’s Shia militia, has...
Victor Hugo said of the devastated Balkans in the 19th century: ‘The Turks have passed by here. All is in ruins or mourning.’ Welcome to modern...
Britain’s new prime minister, Boris Johnson, is being called by many ‘the British Trump.’ It’s an easy comparison, given their quirky,...
Sure. Let’s invade Venezuela. Another jolly little war. It’s full of commies and has a sea of oil. The only thing those Cuban-loving Venezuelans...
‘This is La Main Rouge,’ said the gruff voice on our home telephone in Geneva, Switzerland. ‘Stop your activities on behalf of the FLN or we...
Media reports claim President Donald Trump let loose on his generals behind closed doors, blasting them royally for their startling failures in...
Fifteen years ago this week, the US launched the longest war in its history: the invasion and occupation of remote Afghanistan. Neighboring Pakistan...
Anti-Russian hysteria in America reached its apogee as Democrats tried to divert attention from embarrassing revelations about how the Democratic...
I went to Libya in 1987 to interview its strongman, Muammar Gaddafi. We spent an evening talking in his colourful Bedouin tent outside the Bab...
Russia and US warplanes are flying way too close to one another over Syria and may soon, in Iraq. Drones are all over the place. An accident is...
"The Russians are coming! The Russians are coming!" So echoed the cry this week from the Pentagon, the US media and Republican candidates for...
Africa’s most populous nation has just achieved something very important. Nigeria’s voters handed a landslide victory to former president,...
The horror of the Germanwings suicide-mass murder hits me with particular force because I went through a similar nightmare myself, and because I...
