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Britain ‘immediately’ supported U.S. over shooting down of Iranian airliner

20 July 2022

Tagged Declassified filesIranus

Manchester bombing: A blood price for British foreign policy?

1 July 2022

Tagged LibyaManchester Bombingterrorism

How UK security services obstructed the Manchester bombing inquiry

30 June 2022

Tagged LibyaManchester Bombingterrorism

Nato knew terrorists would gain from toppling Gaddafi

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29 June 2022

Tagged LibyaManchester Bombingterrorism

Counter-terrorism officials allowed Manchester bomber to operate in Libya warzone

28 June 2022

Tagged LibyaManchester Bombingterrorism

Manchester bomber was a UK ally

27 June 2022

Tagged LibyaManchester BombingQatarterrorism
Scotland’s first minister Nicola Sturgeon met House Speaker Nancy Pelosi at the US Capitol in May. (Photo: Drew Angerer / Getty)

Should an independent Scotland aspire to Nato membership?

20 June 2022

Tagged NuclearScotlandUkraine
Guillermo Carmona, Argentina’s minister for the Malvinas (Falklands), Antarctic and South Atlantic. (Photo: Matt Kennard/DCUK)

Argentine minister: ‘We can’t be sure there aren’t nuclear weapons in the Falklands’

26 May 2022

Tagged ArgentinaFalklands
Argentinian soldiers on parade for Independence Day celebrations, Buenos Aires, 9 July 2019. (Photo: Muhammed Emin Canik/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images)

UK trained Argentine soldiers after signing controversial Falklands oil deal

24 May 2022

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

Nato bombing of Libya ‘exceeded UN mandate’

19 May 2022

Tagged BooksLibya
Ukrainians strip a Russian tank near Kharkiv on 16 May 2022. (Photo: John Moore / Getty)

Does the Ukraine war mean Britain should increase military spending?

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18 May 2022

Tagged RussiaUkraine
Entrance to RAF Lakenheath in Suffolk, the centre of the US Air Force’s presence in Britain. (Photo: Matt Kennard/DCUK)

US Air Force deployment in Britain is third largest in world

10 May 2022

Tagged NuclearUnited States
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

27 April 2022

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

British ammo almost certainly maimed Kenyan boy – new evidence

22 April 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

21 April 2022

Tagged Kenya
An Ulster Defence Regiment checkpoint in Northern Ireland, 1984. (Photo: Terry Disney via Getty)

Britain’s sectarian army

20 April 2022

Tagged BooksIreland
Prince William visits Ol Maisor school in 2018. British troops train in the area. (Photo: Thomas Mukoya / AFP via Getty)

The sun never set: British army’s secret payments to colonial-era farms

6 April 2022

Tagged Kenya
Putin puts Russian nuclear forces on high alert, 27 February 2022 (Photo: Kremlin)

Putin’s nuclear threat and Britain’s nuclear posture – not so different?

14 March 2022

Tagged NATONuclear
An elderly woman is evacuated in a shopping trolley from Irpin, Kyiv. (Photo: Emin Sansar / Anadolu Agency via Getty)

Eight dangers of the new Cold War

11 March 2022

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

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

8 March 2022

Tagged Ukraine
Entrance to Northwood Headquarters in northwest London, the location of Nato’s Maritime Command. (Photo: Matt Kennard / DCUK)

Nato’s key role in the UK

8 March 2022

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

Britain’s nuclear arsenal

4 March 2022

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

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

21 February 2022

Tagged Oman
British commanders (left) meet with senior officials from Ukraine’s National Guard in Kyiv, September 2021. (Photo: NGU)

UK commanders in Ukraine met neo-Nazi-linked National Guard to ‘deepen military cooperation’

15 February 2022

Tagged Ukraine