Ukraine has the right to “project force” beyond its own borders for self-defence, Foreign Secretary James Cleverly has said following reports of drone attacks on Moscow. Russian authorities said drones crashed into three residential buildings in Moscow in the early hours of May 30, causing no casualties and only minor damage. The Russian Defence Ministry…

The last British evacuation flights have left Port Sudan for Cyprus, according to the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO). Two final flights took off from Port Sudan on Wednesday night and Thursday morning, the final one leaving at 1:10 a.m. local time. According to Flightradar, the last flight touched down in Larnaca at 6:32…

The British evacuation mission in Sudan is “not over yet” despite the end of the airlift, Foreign Secretary James Cleverly has said. The final evacuation flights left Sudan on Monday evening. According to UK government figures, as of Monday at 5:30 p.m., the number of people repatriated from the war-torn African nation by Britain’s armed…

Britain will run an additional evacuation flight out of war-torn Sudan as rescue efforts shift to the east of the country on Monday. Members of the military are working to assist UK citizens and others trying to escape the conflict zone amid an uneasy ceasefire, the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) said. Some 2,122…

Britain’s Royal Air Force (RAF) airlifted 1,888 people on 21 flights from war-torn Sudan in the UK government’s evacuation operation, which ended on Saturday evening. The final UK evacuation flight departed from the Wadi Saeedna airfield near the Sudanese capital Khartoum at 10 p.m. local time on Saturday, the Foreign, Commonwealth, and Development Office (FCDO)…

British Foreign Secretary James Cleverly said in a major policy speech on Tuesday that it would be a mistake to declare a new Cold War with China. It comes six weeks after the UK published its updated foreign and defence policy strategy, labelling China an “epoch-defining challenge.” But China-focused policy and human rights campaigners said it’s…

The UK government has begun evacuating British citizens from Sudan with Royal Air Force (RAF) aircraft, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has announced. More than 420 people—including at least 273 civilians—have been killed in a bloody conflict between the Sudanese army and a powerful paramilitary group known as the Rapid Support Forces, which broke out on…

An experienced hostage negotiator has told a committee of MPs “state-level hostage situations” such as the case of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe often revolve around the importance of the Foreign Office recognising they are dealing with a “playground bully.” Last month Iran executed Alireza Akbari, a former deputy defence minister in Iran who was also a British…

The British government’s failure to add Iran’s Revolutionary Guards to the list of proscribed terrorist organisations following the executing of a British national, Alireza Akbari, at the weekend is another example of the “weakness” of the government’s policy of “appeasement,” according to an expert on Iran. On Monday, British Foreign Secretary James Cleverly told Parliament…

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken meets with UK Foreign Secretary James Cleverly at the State Department at 3:20 p.m. on Jan. 17. …