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When Britain backed Iran’s dictator

8 November 2022

Tagged Declassified filesIran
Oman’s Sultan returns from a two week “private visit” to the UK in August. (Photo: Handout)

Gulf dictatorship’s £80m UK property network revealed

27 October 2022

Tagged Oman

Sultan’s Surrey mansion revealed in new film

26 October 2022

Tagged Oman

UK aid helps Egypt’s dictator privatise ‘protected sectors’ of economy

13 October 2022

Tagged AidEgypt

Foreign Office scholarship scheme accused of discrimination

12 October 2022

Tagged Saudi ArabiaYemen

Britain’s covert war in Yemen

5 October 2022

Tagged EgyptSaudi ArabiaYemen
Turkish proxy forces fire at Kurdish positions in Syria in February 2022. (Photo: Hisam Hac Omer / Anadolu Agency via Getty)

For Turkey, the Ukraine crisis means open season on the Kurds

15 June 2022

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

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

14 June 2022

Tagged Oman

‘Save him’: Aunt of Briton in Egypt jail says UK must do more

31 May 2022

Tagged Egypt

It’s not just Putin – UK ministers are also complicit in war crimes, in Yemen

30 May 2022

Tagged Saudi ArabiaYemen

Johnson’s Saudi WhatsApps to stay secret

13 May 2022

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

Formula One’s hypocrisy problem

18 March 2022

Tagged BahrainSaudi ArabiaSportUAEYemen
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

2 March 2022

Tagged Yemen
Tim Landon (right) bought land in Hampshire with his fortune from Oman. (Design: DCUK)

Hampshire’s hidden colonial fortune

28 February 2022

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

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

21 February 2022

Tagged Oman
Boris Johnson receives a gift from Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan (Photo: Kayhan Ozer / Anadolu Agency via Getty)

UK rearms Turkey as Ankara backs war crimes in occupied Syria

2 February 2022

Tagged SyriaTurkey
Noof al-Maadeed disappeared in Qatar (Photos: Noof al-Maadeed / Hossam el-Hamalawy)

The World Cup’s missing woman

22 November 2021

Tagged QatarSport
Blair visits Bashar al-Assad in Damascus, 2001. (Photo: Alistair Grant / AFP via Getty)

Revealed: Tony Blair’s extraordinary efforts to court Syria’s dictators

29 October 2021

Tagged Syria
A dhow passes the Musandam peninsula (Photo: Gunter Fischer / Getty)

Stealing a nation – the secret SAS mission to capture the Middle East’s oil artery

22 October 2021

Tagged Oman
Village airport: A cargo plane taxis down Warton’s runway, bound for Saudi Arabia (Photo: Phil Miller / Declassified UK)

New film exposes English village key to bombing Yemen

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15 October 2021

Tagged Saudi ArabiaYemen
Gulf exiles Yahya Assiri and Nabhan al-Hanashi protest against NSO Group on 28 September 2021 (Photo: Abdullah Aljuraywi / ALQST)

Israeli hacking firm invited to London amid human rights outcry

30 September 2021

Tagged Israel
A British soldier rests at a base in Helmand, Afghanistan, 2007 (Photo: Marco Di Lauro / Getty)

Shame, confusion, betrayal: UK veterans on the war in Afghanistan

29 September 2021

Tagged Afghanistan
Prince Andrew rushed to Saudi Arabia after King Abdullah (right) lost his brother Nayef. (Photo: Getty)

Prince Andrew’s Saudi trip made Foreign Office “extremely grateful”

27 September 2021

Tagged OmanSaudi Arabia
A British soldier guards Palestinian prisoners in Jerusalem, 1938 (Photo: Fox Photos / Getty)

Britain is ensuring the death of a Palestinian state

23 September 2021

Tagged IsraelPalestine