This briefing examines Elbit Systems’ role as a major supplier of military equipment used by Israel in Gaza, explores allegations concerning potential links between its products and alleged violations of international humanitarian law, assesses claims regarding the involvement of its UK subsidiaries in Israeli military supply chains, and considers the implications of applying terrorism legislation to Palestine Action activists who targeted Elbit facilities.

Britain’s close security partnership with Egypt, sustained through arms exports, training and diplomatic backing after the 2013 coup, has tied UK policy to a regime marked by severe repression, raising questions about the balance between strategic interests and complicity in human-rights abuses.

Britain’s relationship with Lebanon is centred less on arms exports than on sustained training, funding and logistical support for the Lebanese Armed Forces, reflecting a strategy focused on stabilisation and border security rather than deep defence-industrial ties.

Britain’s intervention in Syria, centred on airstrikes against ISIS under Operation Shader alongside covert special forces activity and limited external contacts, highlights a campaign framed as counterterrorism yet marked by contested civilian casualty figures and questions over accountability.

Britain’s military training missions in Africa aim to promote stability and rights, but in practice they often entangle the UK with fragile regimes, limited oversight and contested outcomes.

The UK’s retreat from aid and surge in defence spending marks a historic reversal, with funds once tied to humanitarian relief now redirected towards military ends, arguably leaves fragile states, particularly in Africa, exposed to deeper instability and preventable loss of life.

An ethnographic study of northeastern Syria reveals how Turkish armed drone strikes between 2019 and 2023 have reshaped daily life, instilling fear, destroying infrastructure, and forcing civilians to adopt survival strategies under constant surveillance and random violence.

AOAV analyses how NATO’s failure to secure Libya’s vast arms depots after the 2011 intervention helped fuel insurgencies and terror across West Africa.

Alan Bobbett, Executive Director of Resilience for Peace, discusses the challenges facing Fulani communities in West Africa, including displacement, climate change, and discrimination, while advocating for inclusive, community-led solutions.

The proliferation of improvised explosive devices (IEDs) across West Africa, driven by the misuse of dual-use technologies and weak border controls, has created a profound security and humanitarian crisis that demands urgent, coordinated regional and international action.

Robert Jenrick’s claim that British special forces are killing rather than capturing terrorists due to legal fears about the European Court is a flawed and dangerous argument that undermines the rule of law and British moral authority.

This report provides an in-depth analysis of the Hamas attack in Israel on October 7, 2023, examining the strategic impact, demographic patterns of casualties, and broader implications for the Israel-Hamas conflict.