Tim Marshall

Foreign Affairs Editor

 

Tim is a leading authority on foreign affairs and has reported from more than 30 countries in Europe, Africa, Asia, the Middle East, and North America.

During the 2011 ‘Arab Spring’ Tim covered stories from Tunisia and Libya, and was part of the reporting team awarded a Golden Nymph award for its dramatic TV coverage from Egypt.

He has covered the wars in Croatia, Bosnia, Macedonia, Serbia, Kosovo, Afghanistan, Iraq, and Lebanon.

Tim has previously been Diplomatic Correspondent, Middle East Correspondent and Europe Correspondent for the channel before being made Foreign Affairs Editor.

Tim is also the author of ‘Shadowplay’, a best-selling (and award-winning) chronicle of the Kosovo War and the overthrow of Slobodan Milosevic.

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Articles

  1. 7:26pm UK, Thursday May 03, 2012 Syria's deputy foreign minister has accused Britain of being directly responsible for the deaths of civilians in his country. Doctor Fayssal Mekdad's accusation was in response to an incident in which a British-Algerian m

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    The head of the UN mission in Syria, Robert Mood, said the number of monitors was growing rapidly 6:09pm UK, Wednesday May 02, 2012 Tim Marshall, foreign affairs editor, Syria The man leading the UN monitor mission to Syria has told Sky News he expects t

  3. 1:59pm UK, Tuesday May 01, 2012 A television camera belonging to Sky News has been confiscated by Syrian officials after the crew filmed an impromptu protest in the capital, Damascus. Sky News foreign affairs editor Tim Marshall, reporting from Damascus,

  4. FSA commander in Homs, Abdul Razzack Tlas

    6:48pm UK, Monday April 30, 2012 Tim Marshall, foreign affairs editor, in Homs Despite heavy losses in the Bab Amr district of Homs the Free Syrian Army (FSA) still controls large areas of the city. The FSA stronghold is the Khaldia district but it manag

  5. Major General Robert Mood in Damascus

    Monitoring chief Major General Robert Mood in Damascus 12:13am UK, Monday April 30, 2012 Tim Marshall, in Damascus The Syrian Army continues to lose increasingly higher numbers of men as violence in the country goes on despite the stepping-up of a UN mon

  6. The Atlantic Cruiser

    8:50pm UK, Wednesday April 18, 2012 Tim Marshall, foreign affairs editor A ship suspected of carrying weapons headed for Syria has docked at a Turkish port. The Turkish authorities are expected to carry out a detailed search of the vessel, which was name

  7. David Cameron visit to Burma

    1:12am UK, Saturday April 14, 2012 David Cameron has called for sanctions against Burma to be eased after holding talks with pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi during an historic visit to the country. Mr Cameron insisted that moves towards democratic

  8. Afghan police take positions after gunmen launched multiple attacks in Kabul

    It is disingenuous for the Afghan government and Nato to call the attacks a failure, says Tim Marshall 12:05pm UK, Monday April 16, 2012 Tim Marshall, foreign affairs editor The Taliban's "Spring offensive" had already started before the weekend's audaci

  9. Myanmar pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi

    David Cameron will call for sanctions against Burma to be eased if the country continues to pursue its path towards democracy 11:04am UK, Friday April 13, 2012 Tim Marshall, foreign affairs editor David Cameron's historic visit to Burma signals that the

  10. Russian President Dmitry Medvedev (left) shakes hands with UN-Arab League envoy Kofi Annan in Moscow

    Political analyst Kirill Koktysh on Russian-Syrian relations 1:11pm UK, Tuesday April 10, 2012 Tim Marshall, foreign affairs editor Russia's response to the imminent failure of the Kofi Annan plan for Syria was to load most of the blame onto the Syrian o

Blogs

  1. Posted by - Tim Marshall. Despite heavy losses in the Bab Amr district of Homs the Free Syrian Army (FSA) still controls large areas of the city.The FSA stronghold is the Khaldia district but it manages to keep the Syrian army out of other quarters as w

  2. Posted by - Tim Marshall .The Syrian Army is losing increasingly higher numbers of men as the fighting between Government forces and armed opposition groups becomes more frequent with more violence in Damascus.We visited the capital’s largest military ho

  3. Posted by - Tim Marshall .So, Kofi Annan's ceasefire in Syria is to be monitored by up to 300 UN blue helmets after the Security Councilvoted at the weekend to expand the observer mission.Or to put it another way;So, Syria's war is to be partially watche

  4. Posted by - Tim Marshall .So, Kofi Annan's ceasefire in Syria is to be monitored by up to 300 UN blue helmets after the Security Councilvoted at the weekend to expand the observer mission.Or to put it another way;So, Syria's war is to be partially watche

  5. Posted by - Tim Marshall .A ship suspected of carrying weapons headed for Syria has docked at a Turkish port. The Turkish authorities areexpected to carry out a detailed search of the vessel which was named by the Dogan news agency as the 'Atlantic Cruis

  6. Posted by - Tim Marshall .What to make of the curious case of Baron Ahmed of Rotherham and the remarks he did, or did not, make in Pakistan recently?Someone is being with the economical with the truth. Lord Ahmed insists it is the Pakistan newspapers, an

  7. Posted by - Tim Marshall .The Taliban's 'Spring offensive' had already started before the weekends audacious attacks around the country.But as a marker for what is happening it was a useful media moniker and instils the idea that they are up andkilling a

  8. Posted by - Tim Marshall .3 is the EU3 (France, UK, Germany). The other 3 is Russia, China, and the US. 1 is Iran.And the spin? That's what the Iranians will be doing during this weekend's 3 plus 3 plus 1 talks in Istanbul.If you find this plethora of nu

  9. Posted by - Tim Marshall .What a terrible place Syrian has been over the past year. Beatings, shootings, kidnappings, torture, lynchings,forced TV confessions, and that's just the activity of some of the opposition, never mind what President Assad's forc

  10. Posted by - Tim Marshall .The ongoing murders of dozens of gay men in Iraq is highlighting the deep fear of both homosexuality and female sexuality prevalent in large sections of Arab society and particularly in Iraq.The Organization of Women's Freedom I