Did you know that one of the most elite parts of the British Army is actually recruited from outside the UK? The Royal Gurkha ...

The Royal Artillery (RA) is central to the British Army's drive “to deliver a ten-fold increase in lethality by harnessing ...

Last year, the Salute Gorkha Training Center sent five young men in training to join the British Army. Seventeen-year-old ...

The UK, which has taken in several hundred Afghans, is considering setting up a special-operations unit of former Afghan commandos in the British Army. It wouldn't be the first time the British ...

Since Indian independence in 1947, Gurkha pensions have been linked to those who served in the Indian army, not those in the British army. There are currently about 3,500 Gurkhas in the British ranks.

The push for pension justice for Gurkha veterans who served in the British Army is continuing with meetings at the highest level.

Calls have been made to improve the conditions for retired Gurkha soldiers in Powys who are being forced to live on pensions below the living wage.

By contrast, Gurkha privates in the British army take home $28,000 a year. “Becoming a Gurkha soldier is a burning ambition for every hill boy,” said Tamang’s father, Saharman Tamang, 50 ...

Two centuries later, young men are still being drawn from their poverty-stricken Himalayan hills by the thousands to fight— and die— with legendary valor for another man's country far ...

VJ Day marks the end of hostilities between the Allied Forces and Japan, effectively bringing the Second World War to a close ...

“But Gurkha units, whilst similar in many ways, are very different to the rest of the British Army and might provide a more welcoming or reassuring environment, not least because there is ...

It is now more than 200 years that men from Nepal have joined the British Army to fight, if needs be, in support of Britain’s overseas interests. And it is 100 years since the end of the First World ...