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Blair misled parliament over 1998 Iraq bombing, files show

by MARK CURTIS | 17 April 2023
TAGGED: Declassified Files, Iraq, US

BP extracted Iraqi oil worth £15bn after British invasion

by MATT KENNARD | 22 March 2023
TAGGED: BP, Iraq

Revealed: British mercenary tortured Arab prisoner

by PHIL MILLER | 16 February 2023
TAGGED: Cyprus, Oman

Britain’s 42 coups since 1945

by MARK CURTIS | 12 January 2023

The UK’s 83 military interventions around the world since 1945

by MARK CURTIS | 10 January 2023
TAGGED: Afghanistan, Albania, Anguilla, Bahamas, Belize, Borneo, Chagos Islands, Cyprus, Egypt, Eritrea, Greece, Guyana, Iceland, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Libya, Maldives, North Korea, Northern Ireland, Palestine, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Korea, Swaziland, Tajikistan, Tanzania, The Gambia, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Vietnam, Zanzibar

UK loaned military adviser to British UN envoy in Yemen

by MATT KENNARD | 6 January 2023
TAGGED: Yemen

Former UN envoy to Yemen linked to MI6, a party to the war

by MATT KENNARD | 5 January 2023
TAGGED: Yemen

When Britain backed Iran’s dictator

by MARK CURTIS | 8 November 2022
TAGGED: Declassified Files, Iran

Gulf dictatorship’s £80m UK property network revealed

by PHIL MILLER | 27 October 2022
TAGGED: Oman

Sultan’s Surrey mansion revealed in new film

by PHIL MILLER | 26 October 2022
TAGGED: Oman

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