British companies have earned more than $60bn from US military contracts since President Obama came to power seven years ago, a Bureau analysis of Pentagon spending has found.

The official did not detail what kind of material companies were producing for the Pentagon, saying only that the “robust online program” operated using “truthful information directed toward regional audiences to combat ISIL’s (Islamic State’s) lies and deception.”

The Pentagon gave a controversial UK PR firm over half a billion dollars to run a top secret propaganda programme in Iraq, the Bureau of Investigative Journalism can reveal.