Roland Oliphant

Benjamin Netanyahu portrays himself as a leader uniquely able to protect Israel's security and deal effectively with Donald Trump.

He is a graduate of West Point, the Army Rangers, and Delta Force. The winner of five Bronze Stars, three Legion of Merit, and two Defence Superior service medals.

Even before it was released, the Government's Defence Investment Plan was controversial, plagued by delay and miserly in vision.

As US-Iran peace talks flounder in Qatar, stranded ship captains are taking matters into their own hands to escape the Strait of Hormuz warzone.

Donald Trump has dramatically declared that the US-Iran ceasefire is officially “over”, calling Tehran an “evil cancer” during a fiery outburst alongside Nato chief Mark Rutte in Ankara, Turkey.

Ukraine has two months to restart peace talks or risk Russia escalating the war, the Czech president has said.

“A shared future in solidarity.” It is the kind of aphorism a management consultant might come up with to motivate ambivalent office workers. Yet, this week, it appeared not beneath stock photographs of sports teams or dolphins, but on Nato-blue posters plastered on bus stops and billboards across Ankara. And the inspirational slogan was not for the benefit of Turkish commuters, but passing motorcades of foreign leaders.

“A shared future in solidarity.” It is the kind of aphorism a management consultant might come up with to motivate ambivalent office workers.

The burst of strikes between Iran and the US has died down but the Strait of Hormuz has seized up, with shipping coming to an almost complete standstill on the southern non-Iranian route.

The US-Iran ceasefire is in crisis following a violent weekend of escalation. From the IRGC damaging a ship in the Strait of Hormuz so badly that