The U.K.’s campaign to overthrow the Assad regime provides key background to understanding Whitehall’s approach to Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, writes Mark Curtis.
When Britain Aided Al-Qaeda in Syria
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KOSOVO AT 25: Britain’s Covert Propaganda Over Kosovo
Tony Blair’s government coordinated a secret campaign to convince the public NATO’s 1999 bombing of Yugoslavia was a just cause, writes Patrick O’Reilly.
KOSOVO AT 25: When Tony Blair Bombed Montenegro
Britain’s direct involvement in the NATO raid that killed a Montenegrin civilian can be revealed for the first time, Phil Miller reports.
BP Extracted £15 Billion of Iraqi Oil After British Invasion
Shell, the other U.K. “super-major” oil company, also re-entered Iraq in 2009 after an invasion in 2003 that was widely denounced at the time as a war-for-oil on the part of the U.S. and U.K., Matt Kennard reports.
Will Downing St. Memo Recur on Iran?
Exclusive: A decade after the infamous “Downing Street Memo” and its “fixed” intelligence for invading Iraq, the pressure is on again to make the case whatever the facts for a new war with Iran. Will the UK’s MI6 and the CIA bend…