British Armed Forces

After six British soldiers are presumed killed in an explosion in Afghanistan, pushing the death toll above the 400 mark, Channel 4 News asks how so many could have died in a newly-reinforced vehicle?

With the announcement that six British soldiers are missing, believed killed, in Afghanistan, we examine the explanations and justifications for the country’s continued presence in the country.

Britain dismisses claims that it is militarising the Falklands dispute by deploying nuclear weapons nearby as “absurd”.

President Obama signals a new direction for US defence strategy towards the Asia-Pacific and away from Europe – but will it delay the F-35 fighter planes destined for Britain’s only aircraft carrier?

The cousin of a Pakistani man held at Bagram airbase in Afghanistan since 2004 tells Channel 4 News his family feared he was dead until two years ago.

Overjoyed at the prospect of returning to the UK for Christmas, HMS Ocean’s crew decided to make a festive video to the tune of Mariah Carey’s All I Want For Christmas Is You.

The Queen joined Prime Minister David Cameron, military chiefs and watching spectators at London’s Cenotaph today as she led the country in honouring its war dead.

At 106, Hetty Bower has lived through both world wars. And on the day the country remembers its war dead, Jon Snow reports that her militant anti-war conviction has survived with her.

A leaked classified memo suggests 16,500 army personnel, including as many as 2,500 wounded soldiers, could be made redundant by April 2015. The MoD has rejected the information as “incorrect”.

Millions of people hold a two-minute silence to remember Britain’s war dead on Armistice Day.

A US army sergeant is convicted by court martial of murdering unarmed civilians and cutting fingers from their corpses as ringleader of a rogue platoon in Afghanistan’s Kandahar province.

Former defence secretary Liam Fox says his treatment by some sections of the media has been characterised by “personal vindictiveness, even hatred”.

An official inquiry into links between Liam Fox and his self-styled adviser Adam Werritty concludes that the former defence secretary breached the ministerial code of conduct.

Wootton Bassett is the first town in a hundred years to be awarded the “Royal” accolade in recognition of its role in honouring the UK’s military personnel.

Kept secret for 65 years, the SAS publishes a diary charting daring missions carried out during its earliest days in World War II, including an operation to capture German commander Erwin Rommel.