Con Coughlin

London

Executive Defence and Foreign Affairs Editor at The Telegraph

Senior Editor at Al Majalla (English)

London-based writer on things that go bang in strange parts of the world

Articles

Trump’s India-Pakistan ceasefire is humiliating for China

5 days ago | yahoo.com | Con Coughlin

Donald Trump’s announcement that India and Pakistan have agreed to a full and immediate ceasefire is a significant humiliation for China, whose own claim that it could act as an honest broker in ending hostilities between the two nuclear-armed powers was almost laughable. Beijing offered to mediate efforts to end hostilities, despite being Pakistan’s main military backer in its confrontation with India.
Sinister China is inflaming the war between India and Pakistan

5 days ago | telegraph.co.uk | Con Coughlin
Pakistan’s Islamist double-dealing has taken us to the brink

1 week ago | yahoo.com | Con Coughlin

When two nuclear powers find themselves involved in a direct military conflict, the overriding priority for world leaders is to concentrate their efforts on defusing tensions between the protagonists rather than to apportion blame for causing the crisis in the first place. India and Pakistan, which have become involved in an increasingly violent confrontation over the disputed territory of Kashmir, are estimated to have around 170 nuclear weapons each.
Pakistan's Islamist double-dealing has taken us to the brink

1 week ago | telegraph.co.uk | Con Coughlin
Con Coughlin: Trump has made the world a more dangerous place

2 weeks ago | independent.ie | Con Coughlin

At the very moment that president Donald Trump was boasting to his Maga faithful about his towering achievements since taking office, UK and US warplanes were in action, bombing Iranian-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen. So much for Trump’s claim that he is presiding over the “most successful” US administration in history.
Trump has made the world far more dangerous

2 weeks ago | yahoo.com | Con Coughlin

At the very moment that president Donald Trump was boasting to his Maga faithful about his towering achievements since taking office, British and American warplanes were in action, bombing Iranian-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen. So much for Trump’s claim that he is presiding over the “most successful” US administration in history.
Trump has made the world far more dangerous

2 weeks ago | telegraph.co.uk | Con Coughlin
'Stupid Intelligence' Is Threatening Trump's Nuclear Negotiations with Iran

2 weeks ago | gatestoneinstitute.org | Con Coughlin

With the Trump administration seemingly intent on negotiating a new nuclear deal with Iran, it is vital that the White House first makes a realistic assessment of the current state of Iran's nuclear programme, which most Western intelligence experts believe is aimed at producing nuclear weapons.
Marrëveshja e Trumpit për Ukrainën, do ta zhyste botën në luftë

3 weeks ago | telegrafi.com | Con Coughlin

Burimi: The Daily TelegraphPërkthimi: Telegrafi.comPropozimi me shtatë pika i presidentit amerikan Donald Trump, për t’i dhënë fund konfliktit në Ukrainë, mund të jetë shumëçka, por ashiqare nuk është një plan paqeje. Është një plan për më shumë luftë. Dorëzim, kapitullim, tradhti, paqësim, braktisje. Këto janë fjalët që përshkruajnë më mirë këtë apologji skandaloze të paqes, të cilën administrata Trump po përpiqet ta shesë nëpër Evropë.
Trump’s deal would plunge the world into war

3 weeks ago | yahoo.com | Con Coughlin

US president Donald Trump’s seven-point proposal for ending the Ukraine conflict may be many things, but it most certainly is not a peace plan. It is a blueprint for more war. Surrender, capitulation, betrayal, appeasement, abandonment. These are the words that better describe the egregious apology of a peace deal that the Trump administration is currently hawking around Europe.