British Armed Forces

Nearly 10 years after British and American forces began the war in Afghanistan, Channel 4 News reporter Inigo Gilmore returns to Kabul to find “freedom and fear living side by side”.

Job cuts to the UK’s military are being announced with the Gurkha regiment and RAF facing the most job losses.

The death toll for British service personnel in Afghanistan climbs to 379 as the MoD reports the death of another soldier in Helmand Province.

Thousands more civil servants are set to lose their jobs at the Ministry of Defence in a second wave of cuts that will reduce its workforce by 40 per cent.

Libyan leader Colonel Gaddafi could stay in the country as long as he relinquishes power, according to Foreign Secretary William Hague.

As Defence Secretary Liam Fox is accused of slashing the army by cutting troop numbers in favour of reservists, he tells Channel 4 News the focus is on the “overall deployable strength of the army”.

The Prime Minister, David Cameron, announces the drawdown of a further 500 troops by the end of 2012, as Britain winds down its combat role in Afghanistan.

David Cameron says the Afghan conflict is entering a “new phase” amid an army investigation into the death of a soldier who was captured by the Taliban and found dead in Helmand province.

As events are held throughout the UK to mark Armed Forces Day, Channel 4 News learns there is growing disquiet over the effect of budget cuts on morale within the British Army.

As the United States and the United Kingdom contemplate further troop withdrawals from Afghanistan, any negotiated settlement is likely to involve more contact with the Taliban.

Prince Harry could be heading back to Afghanistan on a second tour of duty, it was reported today. His first tour, in 2007-8, was cut short because of fears for his safety, as Asha Tanna reports.

On the day the bodies of three British servicemen killed in Afghanistan are returned to the UK, NATO considers its options for an accelerated troop withdrawal from the country.

British and French helicopter gunships have attacked Colonel Gaddafi’s forces, amid criticisms that the scale of NATO’s involvement is suffering from “mission creep”.

Colonel Gaddafi calls for a truce as a flood of defections threatens to fatally weaken his grip on power.

Two Royal Marines – one a decorated hero who saved a wounded man in 2009 – are the latest victims of insurgents in Afghanistan’s Helmand province.