Who are this year's best contenders for the title of most callous people on Earth? This year has seen an unusually strong lineup, starting, perhaps with the folks who shot down that Malaysian airliner... Read More

The mystery over the air strikes in Libya’s capital appears to have been cleared up. US officials say that the military jets which bombed targets in Tripoli last week were from the air forces of Egy... Read More

I was in Benghazi  on the morning when Gadaffi troops stormed its streets in 2011. Shells bracketed through the city, almost street by street . The place was in fear, aware that as the cradle of the ... Read More

I remember clearly the morning four years ago when we were summoned to King Charles Street to see William Hague, the Coalition's dynamic new Foreign Secretary, outline his objectives for British forei... Read More

The expulsion of the CIA's station chief from Berlin raises an obvious question – why do the Americans find it necessary to conduct espionage operations against a country that is supposed to be ... Read More

The success enjoyed by Eurosceptic, anti-immigration parties in the recent EU elections put the wind up Brussels. Fancying themselves as cosmo and enlightened, as friends to immigrants, EU politicos a... Read More

Libya is going through tough times at the moment, as it tries to rein in the militias who brought down Colonel Gaddafi back in 2011. Feted as heroes back in the day, many militias have been reluctant ... Read More

Rasmussen has released a striking new poll today on the Benghazi debacle and how it might impact Hillary Clinton’s likely candidacy in the 2016 presidential race. The poll comes in the wake of a CBS... Read More

Philip Hammond, the Defence Secretary, should not be at all surprised that the British public has grown war-weary given the Government's gross ineptitude in handling national security issues. Mr Hammo... Read More

I'M currently on a reporting trip to Libya, where it's been swelteringly hot all week. And the week before, and probably the one before that. In fact, like most of the Middle East, its climate is fair... Read More