A plane crash in southern Afghanistan has killed four members of the Nato-led International Security Assistance Force. The identities of the four h...
This week, Scotland's lawmakers are sitting down to stage a debate on the legacy of Britain's first female Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher - carving yet another notch into the Scottish Parliament's already prolific belt that celebrates the body's obsession with utterly pointless parliamentary procedure.
In the mid-1990s, I hosted a small dinner for Lady Thatcher and a group of Republican Senators in Washington. Bill Clinton had come out in favour of NATO expansion - which led a number of conservatives to come out against. During the evening, Lady Thatcher told the august group of Republicans around the table - all men, incidentally - to knock it off.
Britain has a "moral obligation" to help Afghan interpreters who are in danger of being abandoned and left at the mercy of the Taliban, a number of ke...
Civilian hackers who cause death or damage to property could be legitimate targets for conventional weapons, according to the first international 'han...
I still find myself largely in sympathy with Alan Duncan on aid and in particular on women's rights in Afghanistan. You don't have to be a cheerleader for military intervention in Afghanistan (I certainly wasn't) to take this view.
Setting up a Cyber ​​Army while the sluices and pumping stations are equipped with factory-default passwords in their SCADA controllers seems pretty stupid. If you live in a glass house, not throwing stones and not motivating others to do so, is the smarter move.
There are more ways than one that Turkey is feeling the impact of the Syrian conflict.
Erdogan is a shrewd, mature politician, intimately acquainted with this and other tenets of international relations. With him as captain, Turkey re-emerged as a financial behemoth in the region and flexed its political muscle. Yet he failed to foresee the ultimate direction of his ship: a painful choice between Scylla and Charybdis, the two mythical sea monsters.
The presence of EU, NATO and other naval forces did not completely solve the problem of piracy, but reduced the risk for ships significantly. As of now four ships and 108 hostages are still under the control of the pirates.
In his inauguration speech, Obama told the American people that ten years of war were coming to an end, with the withdrawals from Iraq and Afghanistan. He signalled that he now wanted to concentrate on domestic priorities.
The US army has announced it will seek the death penalty for the American soldier accused of murdering 16 civilians in Afghanistan. Nine children ...
At long last anti-aircraft weapons are getting through to the rebels. The Free Syrian Army fighters have recently made significant successes on the ground and managed to shoot down five fighter jets including a military helicopter in the space of two days.
Two MSPs have quit the SNP in opposition to the party's new support for Nato, it has been confirmed. John Finnie and Jean Urquhart were among eight...
Nuclear weapons would be "outlawed" in an independent Scotland under the SNP, Alex Salmond said, insisting Trident nuclear submarines would have to be...
US troops have been deployed to the Jordan-Syria border "to deal with the possible consequences" of the civil war, defence secretary Leon Panetta has ...
The Conservatives and Labour are working "very well" together in the the fight against Scottish independence, Liam Fox has said, as he attacked the SN...
Eight women have died in a Nato air strike in Afghanistan, according to the BBC. The killing of civilians, confirmed by Nato, took place in Laghma...
Afghan officials have said a suicide bomber, who killed six outside NATO headquarters in Kabul, four of them children, could have been as young as 12....
A soldier has died after being wounded in Afghanistan last month, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) said. The serviceman, from 1st Battalion Grenadier ...
A senior Taliban officer has been killed in an eastern Afghanistan airstrike that also claimed the lives of twelve other militants, according to Nato....
A soldier from 1st Battalion Grenadier Guards has been killed in Afghanistan while on sentry duty, the Ministry of Defence said on Saturday. The so...
As London literally warms up for the greatest show on earth, Governor Mitt Romney will meet Prime Minister David Cameron amidst last minute preparations for the Olympics Romney himself led ten short years ago.
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has tried to ease tensions with Turkey, stating that he regrets the recent downing of a Turkish military jet that ent...
As EU leaders met for their latest summit this week, it was becoming increasingly clear that more is at stake than the future of the single currency.
