British diplomats were this weekend returning to Baghdad for the first time in 12 years. Christopher Segar and three staff are to get the British embassy, which has lain empty since the first Gulf ...

Having witnessed the chaos and misery of the ruined city of Mogadishu in Somalia I know how thin the veneer of civilization ...

In Baghdad, some 400 British nationals and their Iraqi sympathizers sought refuge in the British Embassy. The last person admitted into the compound was Freya Stark. Previously disdained by many ...

In 1775, U.S. patriot Paul Revere began his famous ride through the Massachusetts countryside, crying out "The British are coming ... In 1983, the U.S. Embassy in Beirut, Lebanon, was severely ...

I had been in Baghdad and Tehran in the months before the siege ... later depositing their weapons at the Iraqi embassy. I am not suggesting British government complicity with the Iraqis, but this ...

When Mossadegh learned of the plot, he closed the British Embassy in Tehran and expelled ... Donald Rumsfeld, to Baghdad to discuss ways the United States could help Saddam. In the wake of his ...

The memo also suggests either significantly downsizing or eliminating the U.S. embassy presence in Mogadishu, Somalia, and closing the Baghdad Diplomatic Support Center in Iraq, while reducing ...

In 1775, U.S. patriot Paul Revere began his famous ride through the Massachusetts countryside, crying out "The British are coming ... In 1983, the U.S. Embassy in Beirut, Lebanon, was severely ...

A State Department spokesperson said in a statement to The Independent: “No embassy or consulate closures ... Somalia and closing the Baghdad Diplomatic Support Center. The news arrives on ...

A $35 afternoon tea set served at the British pavilion at the Osaka Expo has left Japanese social media aghast at its perfunctory paper cups, sending Britain's embassy into damage-control mode.