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Tuesday, 25 May 2010
During the visit, Dr Liam Fox, accompanied by Chief of the Defence Staff, Air Chief Marshal Sir Jock Stirrup, and Her Majesty’s Ambassador Mr…...
Tuesday, 25 May 2010
Going on call at 0900hrs on the morning of Wednesday 19 May, the crew of Lieutenant George ‘Logie’ Baird (aircraft captain and pilot), Lieutenant…...
Tuesday, 25 May 2010
Upgraded Army Lynx Mk9A helicopters have arrived for use in Afghanistan after being shipped from the UK, and are already being put to good use....
Tuesday, 25 May 2010
NATO flagship HMS Chatham made a dramatic rescue of 23 seamen from a merchant vessel off the coast of Somalia on Friday 21 May 2010....
Tuesday, 25 May 2010
Royal Military Police (RMP) are being put through an arduous Crime Scene Investigation (CSI) course to prepare them not only for domestic investigatio...
Monday, 24 May 2010
To help bring local government to the people of Sangin district, Royal Marines from 40 Commando Group have, at the request of the District Governor, b...
Monday, 24 May 2010
Secretary of State for Defence, Dr Liam Fox, visited troops in Lashkar Gah in Helmand province yesterday in his first visit since taking up his Cabine...
Monday, 24 May 2010
Two British female soldiers serving in Helmand have become the first to complete the United States Marine Corps' Female Engagement Team course....
Monday, 24 May 2010
The project aims to recycle 85% of the materials from the old southern taxiway for use on the new surface, with the surplus to be used for other…...
Saturday, 22 May 2010
English football star David Beckham arrived at Camp Bastion, the main British base in Afghanistan, last night for a goodwill visit to meet British and...
Saturday, 22 May 2010
The Secretaries of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, Defence, and International Development are today visiting Afghanistan....
Friday, 21 May 2010
Afghan National Army (ANA) soldiers showed their increasing capability to operate independently when 2-3-215 Kandak recently planned and executed two ...
Friday, 21 May 2010
British military personnel in Afghanistan have started wearing uniforms bearing the first new camouflage design in over 40 years....
Friday, 21 May 2010
Changes to the command and control of ISAF forces in southern Afghanistan, that will see the current Regional Command (South) split in two to better r...
Thursday, 20 May 2010
A group of six servicemen from the Battle Back scheme have spent a week in Gibraltar honing their skills at the Army Swimming Team's training camp....
Thursday, 20 May 2010
As an Afghan Media Officer for Task Force Helmand, Army Captain Niall Taylor helps Afghan journalists tell Afghan people about the work of British and...
Thursday, 20 May 2010
A number of Royal Navy vessels are currently deployed to the eastern seaboard of the USA as part of the AURIGA multinational Naval Task Group....
Thursday, 20 May 2010
Royal Marines of 40 Commando and their Afghan Army colleagues have stormed an insurgent compound in Helmand, seizing 40kg of homemade explosives and e...
Wednesday, 19 May 2010
Defence Estates (DE) has completed two significant projects to improve the living accommodation for British soldiers based in Germany....
Wednesday, 19 May 2010
Cadets marched on the deck of HMS Trincomalee, based in Hartlepool, in celebration of one of the oldest and most successful voluntary youth …...
Wednesday, 19 May 2010
A Royal Navy diver who battled a major flood for more than 45 minutes in the submerged and darkened engine room of HMS Endurance has received a top ho...
Wednesday, 19 May 2010
Working as some of the myriad 'backroom' specialists that allow Marines operating out of Forward Operating Base Jackson in Sangin, Afghanistan, to get...
Wednesday, 19 May 2010
The RAF's Reaper programme has achieved the milestone of providing more than 10,000 hours of armed overwatch in support of UK and coalition forces in ...
Wednesday, 19 May 2010
The UK’s largest military base and centre of operations in Afghanistan, Camp Bastion, has doubled in size in the last year. See Related News…...
Tuesday, 18 May 2010
Camp Bastion, the lynchpin of British, and increasingly American, operations in Helmand, is a desert metropolis, complete with airport, that is expand...
Tuesday, 18 May 2010
Royal Navy Type 22 frigate HMS Chatham, currently deployed as NATO's counter-piracy flagship, has destroyed two boats after intercepting a group of su...
Tuesday, 18 May 2010
ISAF and Afghan leaders have ended two days of discussions on improving counter-insurgency operations and preventing civilian casualties by cataloguin...
Tuesday, 18 May 2010
The fire broke out in a storage yard on the base at 1800hrs local time on Sunday 16 May 2010. Within half-an-hour the flames were visible from…...
Tuesday, 18 May 2010
The fourth annual Armed Forces Sikh Conference, which took place at the Armed Forces Chaplaincy Centre at Amport House near Andover, has been celebrat...
Monday, 17 May 2010
Changing the perceptions of the Afghan people about the coalition, their own government and the Taliban will be key to success in that nation, the Com...
Department of Health and Social Care Ministers launch crackdown on vapes targeting kids
Department of Health and Social Care New UK CMO activity guidelines show every movement counts
Ministry of Defence New training guide launched to revolutionise health of servicewomen
Security Industry Authority Awarding body removed from SIA directory
Department for Culture, Media and Sport Shortlist for UK Town of Culture revealed
Cabinet Office Appointment of the Commissioner for Public Appointments
Ofqual Ofqual stops awarding body from taking on new learners over security qualifications failures