The road to Sinjar passes through dozens of bleak, damp, wrecked villages. Their houses have crumpled under shellfire, the gateways lie in the street, a mosque sprawls half way across a road, its silver metal crescent resting on its side on the pavement. So swiftly have the Islamist al-Nusra group ... Read More »
Trump may have gone to Davos because Obama didn’t – but the two presidents’ foreign policies are unexpectedly similar
On balance, it could be argued that, one year in, Trump has continued large swathes of Obama’s foreign policy, with more purpose, a lot more noise, but also – to a limited degree – more success You can understand why Donald Trump might have baulked at flying halfway around ... Read More »