Jim Mattis

Trump urges suppression of protests over Floyd killing

Focus turns to police behaviour after 10th consecutive night of unrest across the US

Trump under fire from US military after troops threat

President criticised by Mattis and Kelly as Republican senator ‘struggles’ to back him

Democrats dream of John Bolton bombshell in impeachment trial

Call for witnesses intensifies after report that draft of Bolton’s book could damage Trump

Trump clears way for Turkish operation against Syria’s Kurds

US president threatens on Twitter to ‘totally destroy and obliterate’ Turkish economy

US director of national intelligence to step down in August

Dan Coats held position for two years and regularly clashed with Donald Trump

Trump may have backed himself into a corner over Iran

US president’s ambiguous response to latest provocation is in keeping with his incoherent policy on Iran

US-backed fighters expect ‘fierce battle’ with Islamic State

Terror group remains holed up in Syrian enclave in spite of Trump’s ‘100 per cent victory’ claim

Trump says US may declare Isis defeated next week

President says coalition has reclaimed all territory held by terror group in Syria and Iraq

US consensus on troop withdrawal dangerously interventionist

US Politics: Opposition to Trump’s plan to exit Afghanistan smacks of ‘horror of retreat’

US court clears way for Trump’s restrictions on transgender troops

Supreme court judges put earlier decisions that had blocked plan on hold

Trump cancels US delegation to Davos and Pelosi Afghan trip, citing shutdown

President withdraws permission for House speaker to use military aircraft for trip

China sentences Canadian to death for drug smuggling

Trudeau condemns decision as tensions rise in dispute over arrest of Huawei executive

Erdogan snub exposes US disarray on withdrawal from Syria

Turkish president accuses Trump administration of issuing mixed messages on Syria

American man ‘sent CV to Islamic State’ seeking teaching job

Texan man offered his services to terror group as English teacher, documents suggest

The world in 2019: a good year for the pessimists

Brexit activated, Trump unshackled, populism bedded in – it’s a glass-half-empty outlook

White House says Trump won’t pull troops from Afghanistan

Statement contradicts reports last week that the US was to withdraw 7,000 soldiers

Trauma of Trump presidency has focused Democratic minds

US Politics: Donald Trump has forced the Democrats to stand up for American power

Europe reacts with alarm to James Mattis resignation

Ministers fearful over withdrawal of US troops from Syria and Afghanistan

Trump threatens ‘very long shutdown’ amid border wall funding row

Democrats and US president blame each other for crisis as shutdown looms

Mattis’s exit is far more serious than other White House departures

Resignation of Donald Trump’s defence secretary is as shocking as it is unsurprising

US defence secretary Jim Mattis resigns after Syria withdrawal

The retired marine general viewed as a sober voice of experience in the ear of Donald Trump

US defence secretary Jim Mattis to leave position next year

Retired general was seen as a stabilising force in Donald Trump’s cabinet

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