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PHIL MILLER

Phil Miller is Declassified UK's chief reporter. He is the author of Keenie Meenie: The British Mercenaries Who Got Away With War Crimes. Follow him on Twitter at @pmillerinfo

‘Blood on their hands’

July 27th, 2022

Tagged LibyaManchester Bombingterrorism

Nato knew terrorists would gain from toppling Gaddafi

and

June 29th, 2022

Tagged LibyaManchester Bombingterrorism
Maud Quinault with her son Fahad-Louis. (Photo: Supplied)

‘Britain rules Oman’, says regime insider who wants her son back

June 14th, 2022

Tagged Oman

Anger as Queen bags ‘generous’ gift from dictator

June 2nd, 2022

Tagged AzerbaijanBP
Ian Martin with the then UN secretary general Ban Ki-moon. (Photo: Prakash Mathema / AFP via Getty)

Nato bombing of Libya ‘exceeded UN mandate’

May 19th, 2022

Tagged BooksLibya

Johnson’s Saudi WhatsApps to stay secret

May 13th, 2022

Tagged Saudi Arabia
Kibore Cheruiyot Ngasura, left, was evicted from Kericho in 1934 and deported to an island on Lake Victoria. (Photo: Tony Karumba / AFP via Getty)

Prince William petitioned by Kenyan land grab victims

May 4th, 2022

Tagged Kenya
Russian aircraft allegedly attack a Syrian village with white phosphorus in 2016. (Photo: Anas Sabagh via Getty)

British Army admits using white phosphorus in Kenya

April 27th, 2022

Tagged Kenya
Mortars fired by British troops explode in Kenya. (Photo: MOD)

British ammo almost certainly maimed Kenyan boy – new evidence

April 22nd, 2022

Tagged Kenya
Defence Secretary Ben Wallace opens the army’s new East Africa HQ with his Kenyan counterpart. Files were destroyed in the move. (Photo: FCDO)

British army destroyed files in Kenya

April 21st, 2022

Tagged Kenya
Vladimir Putin visits Muammar Gadaffi in Libya, 2008. (Photo: Artyom Korotayev / Getty)

Russian mercenaries invited to Libya via Western security firm

April 14th, 2022

Tagged LibyaRussia
Maz Saleem (right) at a hearing into her father’s murder. (Photo: Oli Scarff / Getty)

Ukraine war: ‘Fantastic opportunity’ for British far-right fighters

March 22nd, 2022

Tagged PolicingterrorismUkraine
Max Verstappen tests his new Red Bull car in Bahrain. (Photo: Lars Baron / Getty)

Formula One’s hypocrisy problem

March 18th, 2022

Tagged BahrainSaudi ArabiaSportUAEYemen
Ben Grant travels to Ukraine. (Screengrab: Twitter / Ukraine military)

Son of Boris Johnson’s special envoy joins Ukraine foreign legion

March 8th, 2022

Tagged Ukraine
Alex, a British veteran who served in Afghanistan as a paramedic, waits to enter Ukraine via Medyka, Poland, on 6 March 2022. (Photo: Omar Marques / Getty)

Ukraine foreign legion: ‘Some of them will lay down their lives’

March 7th, 2022

Tagged Ukraine
A Vanguard-class submarine moored at Faslane (Photo: Phil Miller / DCUK)

Britain’s nuclear arsenal

March 4th, 2022

Tagged NuclearRussiaScotlandUkraine
Aftermath of a Saudi-led air strike on Yemen’s capital Sanaa, 18 January 2022. (Photo: Mohammed Huwais / AFP via Getty)

Yemen: the war the world forgot

March 2nd, 2022

Tagged Yemen
Erik Bennett and Sultan Qaboos of Oman (Photo: SOAF)

Obituary: Sir Erik Bennett, Oman’s second White Sultan

February 21st, 2022

Tagged Oman
The US reactivates a Cold War-era nuclear artillery unit in Germany, 8 November 2021 (Photo: DoD)

Ukraine crisis: How can peace be secured in Europe?

February 3rd, 2022

Tagged RussiaUkraine
Partygate inquisitor-in-chief Sue Gray (Photo: Parliament TV)

Partygate referees: why are they so spooky?

January 31st, 2022

Tagged GCHQMI5Police
Cameroon's President Paul Biya and his wife Chantal (Photo: Alexis Huget / AFP via Getty)

The UK-backed African regime run by five men

January 26th, 2022

Tagged Cameroon
A submarine launch at Barrow-in-Furness (Photo: BAE / MOD handout)

Radiation pills distributed in nuclear submarine ports

January 18th, 2022

Tagged Nuclear
Richard Leakey burns confiscated elephant tusks in 1991. The British army advised him on anti-poaching. (Photo: Andrew Holbrooke / Corbis via Getty. File: UK MOD)

Stakeknife and the spy who went on safari

January 10th, 2022

Tagged IrelandKenya
Henry VIII’s wine cellar beneath Whitehall. (Photo: MOD)

Ten journalists in a wine cellar with the defence secretary

December 14th, 2021

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