A former head of MI6's foreign intelligence service Wednesday criticised Prime Minister Gordon Brown's government over its funding for and handling of the Afghan mission. Richard Dearlove, chief of the Secret Intelligence Service when Britain first sent troops to Afghanistan in 2001, said the Treasury has long been "squeezing" the defence budget, leaving the military under-resourced. "Our armed ...

British police are investigating an allegation of torture against the country's MI6 foreign spy agency, Scotland Yard said on Friday. The case involves an unidentified non-British national, and is not related to the alleged torture of former Guantanamo detainee Binyam Mohamed, which police are already probing. A Metropolitan Police spokesman said Attorney General Baroness Patricia Scotland had asked it ...

Britain's foreign intelligence agency MI6 reported one of its officers to authorities amid new concerns over the country's possible complicity in torture, prompting police to launch an investigation Friday, officials said. MI6 referred an incident to the government's chief legal adviser, Patricia Scotland, who ...