In 1990, Jones went to London as the ABC's current affairs correspondent. He covered the collapse of the USSR in Eastern Europe, the Gulf War, the war in the former Yugoslavia, the fall of Kabul to the Mujahadin and the collapse of apartheid. He returned to Australia in 1993 as executive producer of the "Foreign Correspondent" program. From 1994 to 1996, he was the ABC's correspondent in Washington, D.C., before returning to "Foreign Correspondent" in 1997. He also covered the war crimes in Bosnia. In mid-1998 he returned to "Four Corners".