Breaking down how militaries are offloading life and death decisions to flawed technologies

Commissioned by the former UN Special Rapporteur on human rights defenders, and based on analysis of significant new material, new report finds a range of protection and accountability failures in fiv...

As debate grows over the role of AI in military strikes in the bombing of Iran, scrutiny has turned to civilians caught up in the destruction. An investigation by The Independent and conflict monitori...

Foreign Office released apparently misleading information about call in which then foreign secretary David Cameron allegedly threatened ICC chief prosecutor

Tribunal ruling follows Airwars investigation into Britain’s conduct in bombing campaign against IS in Syria and Iraq

An officer tells the Independent Inquiry relating to Afghanistan UK Special Forces leadership was

Government acknowledges UK involvement in detention operations for first time in Guantánamo inmates case

Cases filed by two Guantánamo Bay prisoners allege MI5 and MI6 were complicit in their mistreatment

The world’s largest public collection of documents relating to the use of rendition, secret detention and torture by US and UK intelligence agencies in the ‘War on Terror’ and beyond.

A collection of air traffic control records, billing documents and other forms of flight data, collected by The Rendition Project during its investigation into the CIA torture programme.

A growing collection of documents from within the CIA torture programme, including memos, internal reports and cables from a number of secret prisons (black sites) where detainees were held outside th...

Mustafa al-Hawsawi is a Saudi national arbitrarily detained at Guantánamo Bay. Between 2003-2006 he was held in the CIA torture programme, detained and tortured in secret prisons around the world. The...

Our investigation has established beyond reasonable doubt that Britain has been deeply and directly involved in the rendition, secret detention and torture of prisoners in the ‘war on terror’. This br...

Cases filed by two Guantánamo Bay prisoners allege MI5 and MI6 were complicit in their mistreatment

Documents shown to court by MoD show the officer rejected every application referred to him in the summer of 2023.

Veterans who served with the SAS and SBS give BBC Panorama eyewitness accounts of alleged executions.

Hundreds of documents relating to allegations of British war crimes, particularly unlawful killings and detainee abuse, during the invasion and occupation of Iraq (Operation Telic, 2003-2011).

Documents relating to the public inquiry established to investigate the torture and death of Baha Mousa by British troops in Basra, September 2003.

Documents relating to the Iraq Fatality Investigations (IFI), a judicial inquiry into alleged unlawful killings in Iraq by British forces.

Documents relating to legal cases arising from the UK’s war in Iraq.

A project examining the thousands of allegations of detainee mistreatment and unlawful killing against British forces during Operation Telic, the UK’s military deployment during the invasion and occup...

A project exploring the evolution of the UKUSA Agreement, a broad intelligence sharing framework which underpins the Five Eyes alliance between the UK, the US, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand.

Documents revealing the long history of MI5 'authorising' their informants to commit crime, with official guidance providing no meaningful limits on the types of crime authorised, or on the scale of i...

Intelligence Services Commissioner, 10 pages, Jul 2017

Prime Minister, David Cameron to Mark Waller (IS Commissioner), 2 pages, 27 Nov 2014

Security Service et al, 10 pages, 13 May 2015

Security Service, 4 pages, Mar 2011

Security Service, 2 pages, 1995

Documents from proceedings at the Investigatory Powers Tribunal (IPT) which led to the disclosure of a secret government policy allowing MI5 officials to authorise their agents to commit criminal acts...

Documents declassified by GCHQ and the US National Security Agency in 2010, relating to the establishment of US-UK intelligence sharing agreements in the postwar era.

A collection of declassified documents from the 1940s and 1950s, relating to the organisation of Australian signals intelligence during the immediate postwar period and the gradual integration of Aust...

An overview of some of the key documents released to Privacy International following their US freedom of information challenge, which offered previously unseen details on the development of Five Eyes ...

An overview of the early development of the UKUSA Agreement, a broad framework which emerged from a series of postwar signals intelligence sharing agreements to form the basis of the Five Eyes allianc...

A large collection of declassified documents relating to Five Eyes intelligence sharing in the postwar era, with a focus on the emergence and evolution of the agreements which underpin the alliance.

A project exploring the evolution of the UKUSA Agreement, a broad intelligence sharing framework which underpins the Five Eyes alliance between the UK, the US, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand.

The Civilian Protection Monitor is a framework for monitoring state policy and practice on the protection of civilians from their own military actions.

Over 500 documents from a range of sources, representing the largest collection of publicly available material relating to UK involvement in the war in Yemen.

We spent three years trying to find out what happened in Whitehall after the Great Hall attack in Yemen. We discovered how decisions fly with political winds, not facts on the ground - just as in Gaza

Court of Appeal (Civil Division), Campaign Against Arms Trade v. Secretary of State for International Trade, 30 pages, 19 Mar 2019

Ministry of Defence, 3 pages, 10 Dec 2020

Foreign and Commonwealth Office (Export Control Joint Unit) and Ministry of Defence (Security, Policy and Operations), 5 pages, 4-25 May 2021

Over 500 documents from a range of sources, representing the largest collection of publicly available material relating to UK involvement in the war in Yemen.

We spent three years trying to find out what happened in Whitehall after the Great Hall attack in Yemen. We discovered how decisions fly with political winds, not facts on the ground - just as in Gaza