[2] Immediately after leaving school, he took a Short-Service Limited Commission [SSLC] in the British Army and served briefly as an officer, attached to a regiment of Gurkha Rifles in Hong Kong, Brunei and Sarawak.
In 2001, Chater covered the war in Afghanistan after the 9/11 attacks, receiving a Gold Medal from the New York Television Festival for his reports on the siege of Kunduz, jointly with his Sky News colleague Colin Brazier.
In April 2003, during the 2003 invasion of Iraq, Chater reported from the streets of Baghdad before and during the arrival of US forces to the city, stayed throughout Operation Shock and Awe and also covered the Battle for Faluja.
The then Head of Sky News, Nick Pollard, said Chater was leaving to pursue "other interests" and praised his "outstanding career" with the channel.
[5] In 2008, Chater left Al Jazeera to become Head of News at the Kanal Pik television channel in the former Soviet republic of Georgia.
Kanal Pik is run under licence by a new production company, K1, co-owned by British broadcasting journalist Robert Parsons.