Jonathan Steele

Jonathan Steele is a British journalist and an author of several books on international affairs. Steele was educated at King's College, Cambridge and Yale University. He has reported on Afghanistan, Russia, Iraq, and scores of other countries. He was Washington Bureau Chief for the Guardian from 1975 to 1979, Moscow Bureau Chief from 1988 to 1994, Foreign News Editor between 1979 and 1982 and Chief Foreign Correspondent for The Guardian between 1982 and 1988 during which he reported on civil war in El Salvador and Nicaragua as well as the US invasion of Grenada in 1983. On return to London in 1994 after six years in Moscow, he covered the crisis in Kosovo in 1998 and 1999 and the fall of Slobodan Milosevic in 2000. As Senior Foreign Correspondent he covered numerous stories in the Middle East after 2001. He covered the US/UK invasion of Iraq in 2003 and was regularly on assignment in Baghdad for the next three years. This resulted in January 2008 in his book Defeat: Why America and Britain Lost Iraq which was published by I.B. Tauris in the UK and Counterpoint in the US. He covered the crisis in Syria after 2011, making numerous trips to Damascus.