Tag: war

Warning: this article contains links to graphic images and descriptions of torture. Earlier in May, the Canary reported on the ...

Yemeni artist Alaa Rubil uses the shell-pocked buildings of his hometown as canvas, to shine a light on the horrors of war

by The Canary

30 May 2023

Not long after the start of the war in Yemen, the southern port city of Aden, where artist Alaa Rubil ...

Finbar Cafferkey, Cooper Andrews, Dmytro Petrov - anarchists killed while fighting Russia in Bakhmut, Ukraine

Three internationalists died defending Bakhmut, here’s why they joined the struggle against Russia’s invasion

by Tom Anderson

26 May 2023

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Finbar Cafferkey, Dmytro Petrov, and Cooper Andrews were revolutionaries from Ireland, Russia, and the US. All three of them joined ...

MoD-contracted firm that provides military hardware to Ukraine is linked to Tory donor

by Tom Coburg

19 May 2023

Privately-owned military technology firm QinetiQ will be supporting the US and NATO countries with an upcoming military defense exercise. The ...

Sudan heading for refugee crisis as war escalates – but international solidarity isn’t forthcoming

5 May 2023

Hundreds of thousands could flee Sudan as peace negotiations break down. Up to 860,000 people could be displaced by the ...

Tory MP says lessons should be learned from the Afghan war – we’ve heard it all before

28 April 2023

Calls for a full inquiry into Britain's disastrous 20-year war in Afghanistan have been rejected by ministers. The refusal comes ...

Global military expenditure hits record highs in boon for arms traders

27 April 2023

Global military spending has hit record highs. As ever, the main beneficiaries are arms firms. The Stockholm International Peace Research ...

Sudan General Abdel Fattah Abdelrahman Burhan

Who is fighting in Sudan, and what are their aims?

by Alex/Rose Cocker

25 April 2023

For the past week, forces loyal to Sudan's de-facto ruler - army chief Abdel Fattah al-Burhan - and rival fighters of ...

Israel's nuclear weapons depicted by a line of Israeli flags and some nuclear war heads

Thanks to Declassified UK, we now know the UK government has covered up for Israel’s nuclear weapons programme

by Steve Topple

19 April 2023

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An independent media site has uncovered documents about Israel's nuclear weapons programme. They show that the UK government has long ...

BAE training jets representing the Tempest jet program

Another day, another massive windfall for the death trade

19 April 2023

Arms giant BAE Systems has landed another giant windfall. This time the global arms firm has acquired a Ministry of ...

As UK sets out anti-China strategy, Japan sets up missile base in contested islands

23 March 2023

As the UK set out a new strategy on China, its partner Japan sent troops and missiles to a remote ...

Massive UK military spending hike does nothing for real security, experts warn

17 March 2023

The UK government have proposed a n £11bn defence spending boost. However, Scientists for Global Responsibility (SGR) have stated that ...

Three Palestinians shot dead in “cold blood” by Israeli forces

9 March 2023

Israeli forces shot three Palestinians dead in the occupied West Bank on Thursday. The Palestinian health ministry announced the martyrdom ...

Rishi Sunak refuces calls for a ceasefire

Just when you thought Britain couldn’t get any more racist, the Tories bring the Illegal Migration Bill

by Eliza Egret

8 March 2023

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Rishi Sunak has announced that refugees arriving into the UK by small boats will be permanently banned from re-entering the ...

Western-trained Afghan special forces said to be fighting for Putin’s Wagner Group

24 February 2023

Elite Afghan commandoes trained by the West may already be fighting alongside Russian Wagner Group mercenaries against Ukraine, reports claim. ...

Russia-China ties deepen but New Cold War rhetoric conceals more than it discloses

23 February 2023