Body armour given to British Army troops is failing to protect them from bullets, shock new tests have revealed. A major recall has been ordered by Ministry of Defence chiefs after scans showed ...

British troops were withdrawing from Sierra Leone today, a Ministry of Defence spokesman said. About 200 troops have been wrapping up their operations over the past couple of weeks following the ...

Former defence secretaries call for UK to join a post-war peacekeeping force, but troops could ... forces train with British Army instructors in the arts of drone and modern trench warfare at ...

Thousands of British troops have been deployed to Romania and Bulgaria to prepare for a Russian invasion on Nato in the near future. As many as 730 army vehicles and 2,600 personnel will be statio ...

British troops are travelling en masse to continental Europe to participate in major NATO-led drills designed to wargame mass mobilisation, amid threats that Russia could attack allied nations.

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BRITISH troops could be deployed to help police a future peace deal between Russia and Ukraine, the Prime Minister has said. And Sir Keir Starmer insisted US President-elect Donald Trump was not ...

Around 2,500 British personnel, along with hundreds of vehicles, are moving across the continent by land, air and sea to join allies in Romania. The operation, called Steadfast Dart, aims to ...

Military chiefs insist ‘UK is in a strong position’ but no ‘deep military planning’ had yet taken place on the subject British troops can and will lead a peacekeeping mission in Ukraine ...

British troops are looking after each other on a “massive road trip” to Romania as part of a major Nato training exercise. More than 2,500 British personnel are moving across Europe by land ...