Oops: MoD blunder reveals secret details of bomb project
A botched freedom of information response has revealed sites in the frame for the UK’s expanding weapons programme.
Iraq
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FFS explains: Asylum, migration and Manston
Immigration has been dominating news headlines in the UK, due to rising numbers of migrants arriving in Kent and reports
Thousands held in immigration detention by Police Scotland
Over 3,000 people – including asylum seekers – have been held in police cells for up to 72 hours under immigration
Hundreds of Afghans prevented from claiming asylum in the UK pending Home Office investigations
Hundreds of asylum seekers from Afghanistan have been prevented from applying for refugee protection in the UK this year despite
Scottish politicians and academics call for release of Kurdish Iraqi prisoner
Scottish politicians and academics at Glasgow University have called on authorities to release a former Glasgow University student arrested in
Hundreds of asylum seekers still housed in hotels
Almost 400 asylum seekers are still being housed in budget hotels rooms by Home Office contractor Mears – and living on
In pictures: the devastated city of Mosul two years on
This story is best viewed on a larger screen More than 300,000 people are unable to return to their
Podcast: Genocide, the Yazidis and Scotland’s call for justice
“They called them ‘sabia’ or ‘jaria. This means ‘female slaves’. Daesh viewed them as ‘spoils of war’,” said Dr Luma
Insight: the Iraqi Christian militia established to fight Islamic State
As the battle rages between Islamic state group and official forces in Iraq’s second largest city Mosul, a Christian
The destruction and liberation of Batnaya
“For everyone to know that we are the soldiers of the Caliphate, and we are coming – God willing,” says Ben
Mosul: the appalling human cost of the battle to defeat IS
It’s late afternoon in Iraqi Kurdistan and Hasar Husein and Haithan Abdul Kareem lie side by side on stretchers
The carnage and crisis of Mosul
“Daesh put its fighters on the top three floors of the hospital while patients were still downstairs…there were even
UK firms at centre of growing global mercenary trade
BRITISH security firms have been accused of making vast profits from misery in the world’s war zones. In a