Defence Secretary Geoff Hoon was today announcing the deployment of thousands of troops to the Gulf ahead of a possible war on Iraq. In a statement to the House of Commons Mr Hoon was announcing ...

British Army chief General Sir Mike Jackson today dismissed reports that troops in the Gulf were under-supplied and insisted they were ready for war. Sir Mike, the chief of the general staff ...

WASHINGTON -- The Pentagon will soon notify some 35,000 Gulf War veterans that they were among an estimated 100,000 U.S. troops who may have been exposed to trace amounts of nerve gas after U.S ...