World views from the author of First with the News, a memoir of life on the front line

Now that the US and Iran are once again "exchanginbg" bombs and missiles as if it's Operation Epic Fury Part One and a Half, t...

Shooting down an Apache attack helicopter is a serious business. It's not like hitting a drone. So did Iran's Islamic Revolutionary ...

Claims about the war in Iran coming to an eed at any moment have been made so many times that it is difficult to take any predictions from t...

Donald Trump has told Israel to stop bombing Iran but Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister, has ignored him. This tells a lot. Tru...

Most images of Donald Trump on social media and in the newspapers these days show him with his eyes closed as yet another interminable meeti...

The vice president of the United States doesn't have much of a role to play and it must be pretty frustrating which is why perhaps the c...

In Vladimir Putin's eyes, his bete noir, Volodymyr Zelensky, has been a dead man ever since he failed to be toppled and then fought back...