Pentagon Hired Questionable Contractors for Syria Arms Purchases
The Pentagon’s battle against the Islamic State relies on an Eastern European arms supply line operated, in part, by firms...
Making a Killing
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The Pentagon Pipeline
Kurdish Militia in Syria Found With US-Bought Mortar Shells
President Obama promised not to arm Kurdish units fighting in the Syrian civil war. But new evidence shows that Serbian...
Revealed: The Pentagon Is Spending Up To $2.2 Billion on Soviet-Style Arms for Syrian Rebels
The Pentagon is on the hunt for Soviet-style arms across Eastern Europe -- and it’s using questionable contractors and...
The Black Sea Route to Syria
Romania and Bulgaria’s ports served as key transport hubs in the Pentagon’s supply-line which fueled millions of bullets and...
German Concerns Spark Pentagon Reroute of Syria-Bound Arms
The Pentagon has rerouted its weapons supply-line to Syria after officials in Berlin became concerned at the surge in arms...
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The Saudi-Backed Pipeline
The Coyote’s Trail: A Machine Gun’s Path from Serbia to Syria
"How a batch of heavy machine guns travelled illegally from a Serbian state-owned factory to Syrian rebels via a...
A Bulgarian Arms Broker with a History of Controversial Deals
"Saudi Arabia bought Serbian-made Coyote machine gun through BIEM, a Bulgarian firm owned by Petar Mandjoukov, a...
Croatian Arms Sales to Saudi Arabia Fuel Syrian War
"Zagreb sold a record amount of aging weapons and ammunition to Saudi Arabia in 2016, ignoring evidence the arms are...
EU: We’re tracking Balkan arms flow to Syria
"The European Union’s foreign policy unit is monitoring the flow of weapons to the Middle East and into the hands of...
Montenegro Opens Weapons Supply Line to Saudi Arabia
"An arms broker who sold almost 300 tons of aging Yugoslav-era weapons and ammunition to Saudi Arabia says “It’s no...
Serbia’s Vucic Defends Mideast Arms Sales: “I Adore It When We Export Arms”
Serbian Prime Minister Aleskandar Vucic has defended arms sales to Saudi Arabia, in response to OCCRP/BIRN revelations that...
Making a Killing: The €1.2 Billion Arms Pipeline to Middle East
An unprecedented flow of weapons from Central and Eastern Europe is flooding the battlefields of the Middle East.
The Middle East Airlift
Dozens of cargo flights have transported thousands of tons of Soviet-style weapons and ammunition between Central and...
Arms Exports to Middle East: A Question of Legality
Arms and human rights experts question the legality of Central and Eastern Europe’s rocketing arms trade with the Middle...
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