Between 26 May and 4 June, after retreating from the rapid German advance across western Europe, approximately 338,000 Allied ...

were professional soldiers from the British Expeditionary Force; trained men that Britain could not afford to lose. British troops line up on the beach at Dunkirk to await evacuation - May 1940 Back ...

D-Day marked the beginning of the end of the Second World War, a period of our history captured on screen in all its guts and glory. Graeme Ross sticks his head above the ...

British soldiers have used a “game-changing” radio-wave weapon that can destroy drones for less than the cost of a pack of mince pies. The British Army trialled a Radio Frequency Directed ...

A weapon that zaps enemy drones out of the sky using radio waves has been fired by British soldiers for the first time. The Radio Frequency Directed Energy Weapon (RFDEW) can detect, track and ...

North Korean soldiers fighting for Russia were given fake military documents with Russian names and birthplaces, the Ukrainian military said, amid claims from Kyiv that Russia is trying to conceal ...

DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — Hundreds of former Syrian soldiers on Saturday reported to the country's new rulers for the first time since Bashar Assad was ousted to answer questions about whether they ...

Actor Art Evans, best known for his roles in the films "A Soldier's Story" and "Die Hard 2," has died. He was 82. Evans died on Saturday, his agents LyNea Bell and Charleen McGuire confirmed in an ...

Soldiers are quitting the Armed Forces at an ... is now four times the size of the British Armed Forces for the first time. Britain has a public payroll of 543,000 full-time mandarins and 137,000 ...