The demand for a Sikh regiment within the British Army, which also has a Gurkha Regiment, has gained traction. British ...

The UK denied plans for a Sikh regiment despite media reports. Lord Sahota raised the issue, and Lord Coaker expressed ...

Did you know that one of the most elite parts of the British Army is actually recruited from outside the UK? The Royal Gurkha Rifles, or RGR, is a rifle regiment composed mostly of soldiers from Nepal ...

The main reason there is war in Europe again is that when President Putin looked west on February 24, 2022, he saw no ...

VJ Day will be honoured and remembered with special programming across TV, iPlayer, Radio, Sounds and the BBC Archive to mark ...

Without Nepal’s decision, the British can’t take in female Gurkhas to serve them. Many doubt family’s permission for these young women to serve in a foreign army will come easy either.

The New Zealand Defence Force is not considering recruiting from across the Pacific as talk continues of Australia doing so.

They struck in silence, bled in shadows, and altered the course of war-- not for glory, but because someone had to. While the ...

The UK Carrier Strike Group has led a major British contribution to the large multinational exercise in Australia. More than ...

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

Live commemorations, powerful personal testimonies and rare archival footage form the centrepiece of the broadcaster’s tribute to the ‘forgotten war’ in the Far East… As the UK prepares to mark 80 ...