Biography
Alistair is Middle East correspondent. He was formerly defence and security correspondent, covering global security issues from conflict to counter-terrorism.
He regularly files from the frontlines in Iraq, Afghanistan, Yemen, North Korea and NATO's eastern border with Russia – as well as the UK.
He has been given unprecedented access to some of the UK's most secretive establishments: GCHQ, the Trident nuclear deterrent, the country's highly secure air command bunker and the UK's covert drone base in the Middle East.
Alistair has covered elections in Pakistan and Turkey, the Eurozone crisis across the continent and humanitarian disasters in South Sudan and the Philippines.
