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

It looks like the much-rumoured ousting of Rex Tillerson as secretary of state is now high on Trump's mind. He wants Mike Pompeo, his tr...

The empty chair routine, of course, has been done before. Donald Trump used the image of two empty chairs when he tried to explain why he wa...

Admiral Mike Mullen, former chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff and a very pleasant fellow, has admitted that he is really worried ther...

There's no real contest when a retired four star Marine Corps general is set against a flippertijibett young businessman even if the lat...

Some new leaders make waves as soon as they take over. Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman of Saudi Arabia isn't strictly speaking the new ...

On the face of it, the last person you would want to succeed Robert Mugabe as president of Zimbabwe is his former vice president, Emmerson M...

Isis may have been defeated in Syria but what about Syria itself? The situation is totally different from the political landscape in Iraq wh...