Britain’s military interests in Iraq examined

Britain’s role in Iraq, spanning permissive exports during Saddam Hussein’s rule, direct military intervention in 2003 and subsequent training and arms support, has been marked by repeated allegations of complicity in abuses, from enabling chemical capabilities to documented torture and mistreatment by UK forces and their partners.

British troops in Kenya face damning accusations of sexual abuse, killings and environmental harm

A landmark Kenyan parliamentary inquiry has issued the most damning assessment yet of Britain’s military presence in the country, detailing decades of alleged sexual violence, killings, environmental harm and institutional obstruction by BATUK, and warning that abuses long shielded by immunity can no longer be ignored.

Impact of Libyan arms proliferation after NATO intervention in Africa: the role of the UK and France’s air campaigns and their impact on regional destabilisation

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.

Why Britain’s dependence on Israeli weapons tainted by Gaza atrocities must end

The UK’s reliance on Israeli-developed weapons tested in Gaza raises serious ethical concerns about complicity in human rights abuses and the militarisation of occupied territories.

British MoD admits its Kenya desk has not communicated with Kenyan authorities amid rape and murder claims against UK troops

The UK Ministry of Defence (MoD)’s Kenya desk holds no records of communications with Kenyan authorities regarding ongoing inquiries into alleged misconduct by British soldiers stationed in the east African nation, AOAV has learnt.

Wikileaks’s Iraq War Logs: Bodies of mutilated civilians dumped across Baghdad

The war logs reveal extensive violence in Iraq from 2004 to 2009, including tens of thousands of civilian murders, horrific torture methods, and mass graves, often targeting those associated with Coalition forces.