The former Afghan government’s elite commandos may be joining the British Army. Some British politicians are calling for the Army to form a new regiment from the commandos, hundreds of whom are ...

In 2003, the year the United States military switched its attention from Afghanistan to lead the invasion of Iraq, Simon Akam joined the British Army. Akam was part of a former program for ...

British army soldiers have raised concerns about their new body armour, the BBC has learned. Virtus, which is replacing ... reasons to ease the burden. In Afghanistan a British soldier on patrol ...

Another blow to the British army’s credibility came in its 2006 onward deployment to Helmand province, Afghanistan. While British forces served courageously in these Taliban heartlands ...

The British prime minister, David Cameron, condemned what he called an “appalling” attack but said that it was “not typical of the Afghan Army” and that it would be wrong to change ...

LONDON, Oct 9 (Reuters) - British special forces personnel raised serious concerns over the conduct of some soldiers in Afghanistan who allegedly executed men who posed no threat during raids ...

Javid Ahmed had jumped from a Chinook helicopter with his SAS comrades and swept silently through a Taliban compound in eastern Afghanistan, spiriting away the Islamic State money-man they had ...

Afgans who came to the UK after working and fighting alongside British troops against the Taliban want to be allowed to join the Army. Dozens of former Afghan soldiers and frontline interpreters ...

Former Afghan troops who fought the Taliban alongside British forces are being blocked from joining the Army for at least five years because of citizenship regulations. The once-elite troops are ...

Prince Harry served in the British Army for 10 years. He completed two tours of Afghanistan, one spanning 2007 to 2008 and the other from 2012 to 2013. He achieved the rank of captain in 2011 and ...

"My life has now become hell," one former British Army interpreter tells Sky News, reflecting on the past year spent hiding from the Taliban following the takeover of Afghanistan last summer.

A British army veteran has urged Rishi Sunak’s government to give his Afghan former comrade a home after he was forced to flee Kabul in fear of his life and denied help by Britain – despite ...