All news on the topic: Armed forces

Donald Trump's speech before the New Hampshire primaries took a bizarre turn as he went on a tangent about "forts" and their role in the World Wars

Royal Navy Rating Simon Parkes, from Bristol, was last seen drinking at a pub in Gibraltar after the ship the 18-year-old was serving on, HMS Illustrious, docked

Glennis Bradshaw, 69, lost contact with father Gerald Lee, 89, in 1961 at just six-years-old - and spent nearly two decades looking for him

Military experts have offered their advice about how Europe and the US can stop Russia advancing West and help Ukraine push back the invading forces after two years at war

BBC's Laura Kuenssberg confronted Defence Secretary Grant Shapps over below-target army spending after he he set out the risks of an increasingly dangerous world

Chace Cook, 20, is facing the death penalty for the alleged murder and rape of his ex-girlfriend, 18-year-old Madeline Bills, who was found dead in her bedroom in April 2023

The base hosted American forces in western Iraq and was attacked with "at least a dozen missiles," according to a US defense source and an Iraqi police official.

The multi-million pound Royal Navy ship HMS Chiddingfold reversed into fellow hi-tech British combat vessel HMS Bangor in the embarrassing maritime pile-up in Bahrain

In a bleak outlook, Admiral Rob Bauer, who chairs NATO's Military Committee, said governments need to be ready to mobilise citizens and it's "not a given" that there will be peace

Lance Corporal Harold Jones, a World War Two veteran who lives in Sutton Coldfield, West Midlands, has been doing laps of his back garden 30 times every day since 2020

Royal Navy Seaman Simon Parkes, from Bristol, disappeared in December 1986 after going ashore from HMS Illustrious, as police begin a fresh search for him on the territory

Shocking footage of hostages Noa Argamani, Tai Tversky and Yossi Sharabi, has been released by Hamas - the video includes a sinister message which states 'tomorrow we will inform you of their fate'

Alicia Kearns MP, chair of the Foreign Affairs Committee, says if the UK and US had not acted, the Houthis would eventually have caused a maritime disaster

Private Kieran Steven Heaney, who aided in the evacuation of thousands of Brits and Afghanis in August 2022 aged just 18, was found dead in his room at Chester barracks

The UK joined US counterparts in carrying out airstrikes at around midnight last night against Houthi rebels in Yemen who have attacked commercial shipping in the Red Sea

The Prince and Princess of Wales, William and Kate, are set to make their first tour of 2024 to a foreign country where British armed service personnel are stationed

Despite a big prize at stake, contestant Jonny Holloway has hinted he has already won far more than money can buy after battling back from being blown up by an IED in Afghanistan.

Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex, was left out of Sandhurst’s guide to its most notable alumni, which means he joins outcasts such as fascist leader Sir Oswald Mosley and Waffen-SS Officer Benson Freeman

As Gaza is in a "desperate humanitarian crisis" according to the British Red Cross, the IDF claims that it has "completed" the dismantling of Hamas' command structure in Northern Gaza

Mike Sadler was one of the original SAS rogues who fought Nazis behind enemy lines, outnumbered and outgunned, he once escaped capture from German troops and trekked 100-miles across the desert to safety

Israel is said to be moving towards a low-intensity war with Hamas, as it faces an escalating cross-border conflict with Syria and Lebanon, with plans to withdraw from Gaza within weeks

Defence Secretary Grant Shapps said the UK is weighing up strikes on Houthi insurgents behind a string of attacks on freight vessels in the Red Sea, aimed at disrupting vital trade routes

The US has been warned of "consequences" after Navy helicopters killed 10 Yemen-based Houthi rebels who attacked container ship in the Red Sea

The huge shipment of cocaine was found in 77 plastic bags on a semi-submersible vessel in the Pacific Ocean, with the cargo reportedly intercepted while being transported to Central America.

New figures show Elle Edwards' killer Connor Chapman has cost £282,000 in legal aid - the majority of which during this year's murder trial for gunning down the beautician on Christmas Eve