
Arms Trade


UK rearms Turkey as Ankara backs war crimes in occupied Syria
by MATT BROOMFIELD | 2 February 2022
TAGGED: Syria, Turkey
Britain has quietly resumed arms exports to its NATO ally Turkey, whose brutal operation in Syria targets the UK’s key Kurdish allies fighting Islamic State (ISIS). Turkish-backed militias are complicit in human rights abuses and include former members of ISIS

New film exposes English village key to bombing Yemen
by MATT KENNARD | 15 October 2021
TAGGED: Saudi Arabia, Yemen

Israeli hacking firm invited to London amid human rights outcry
by PHIL MILLER | 30 September 2021
TAGGED: Israel

Britain is ensuring the death of a Palestinian state
by ILAN PAPPÉ | 23 September 2021
TAGGED: Israel, Palestine

“Nothing to hide here”: Inside the world’s largest arms fair in the heart of London
by MATT KENNARD | 17 September 2021
TAGGED: Israel, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia

Britain’s “robust” arms export controls are a fiction
by ANDREW FEINSTEIN | 14 September 2021
TAGGED: Israel, Yemen

Arming the Philippines: It’s a Duterte job, but does Britain have to do it?
by TOM SYKES | 1 July 2021
TAGGED: HSBC, Philippines, Shell
Thousands of people have been killed in the Philippines under President Rodrigo Duterte, but the UK has massively increased arms exports to his authoritarian regime and is prioritising trade and investment with the country — partly as a post-Brexit bulwark against China.

Foreign minister James Cleverly accused of breaking ministerial Code over arms to Israel
by MARK CURTIS | 30 June 2021
TAGGED: Israel
Britain’s Middle East minister James Cleverly is regularly refusing to provide answers to written questions posed to him by members of parliament, especially on UK arms exports to Israel, contravening House of Commons rules.

Revealed: The secret Whitehall committee that holds ‘no records’
by PHIL MILLER | 24 June 2021
TAGGED: Bahrain, Oman, Raytheon, Yemen
Declassified has discovered a secret UK government committee that held meetings with an arms dealer, former oil executive and ex-spy — but parliament is told there are ‘no records’ of what was discussed.