Results for "mercenaries"
Revealed: British mercenaries linked to brutal crackdown on left-wing activists in Sri Lanka
A British mercenary kept working at Sri Lanka’s military headquarters in the late 1980s during a bloody crackdown on left-wing activists from the country’s Sinhalese majority, new evidence obtained by Declassified UK reveals.
Exclusive: Met Police open war crimes investigation into British mercenaries
Police in London have opened an investigation into war crimes allegedly committed by British mercenaries in Sri Lanka during the 1980s.
Exclusive: Why Britain wanted to ‘kill’ a United Nations ban on mercenaries
Following recent revelations that UK mercenaries fought on the same side as Vladimir Putin’s forces in Libya, Declassified exposes how Britain has blocked international efforts to ban private armies – partly to protect its own use of Gurkhas and other foreign fighters.
‘The benefits of doing nothing at all’: Why Britain is unlikely to support a ban on Russian mercenaries
The rise of Russian mercenaries in conflicts across Syria, Ukraine and numerous African countries is concerning the UK’s Ministry of Defence, yet Britain appears unlikely to support a ban on such mercenaries because of its own private security industry.
Revealed: Over 100 Britons among Israeli soldiers and settlers
Rishi Sunak is Ninth UK Prime Minister to Bomb Yemen From Air
British fighters in Israel’s military: Is it legal?
Blockading an occupied territory with UK support
