Sir John Sawers lived in Syria in the 1980s and says he saw the oppression from the Assad regime "with my own eyes". Here, the former MI6 chief explains the situation in Syria to Sky News.

Sir John Sawers has spent his career dealing with foreign policy and international security ... In 2009, he was called back to London to become Chief of MI6, a position he held for five years. As MI6 ...

Between 2009 and 2014, Sir John Sawers was known as "C" - the head ... Sir John said: "When I was chief of MI6, we looked at all these Syrian opposition groups and classified them into those ...

The UK is going through a "political nervous breakdown", a former intelligence chief has told the BBC. Sir John Sawers said the UK ... The former MI6 boss was also critical of Labour leader ...

However, the MI6 chief said Europe and North America already ... The former head of MI6, Sir John Sawers, warned last month that police and intelligence agencies in Britain should be “on ...

Managing relations with Russia will be the defining problem in European security for years to come, says former chief of the MI6 John Sawers LONDON, February 17. /TASS/. Former chief of the ...

However, the MI6 chief said Europe and North America already “have many times Russia’s GDP ... while around 90 per cent of the population of around 2.3 million have been forced from their homes. The ...