A Nato helicopter called in to support Afghan police at a highway checkpoint opened fire and mistakenly killed five Afghan officers, officials have said.

The aircraft, believed to be a US helicopter, also injured two other special forces servicemen and destroyed part of a police checkpoint

A soldier who posthumously received one of only two Victoria Crosses awarded for exceptional bravery in Afghanistan was killed by his own grenade, an inquest heard.

A third soldier who died from injuries sustained in SAS selection training in mid-Wales last month, was today named as Corporal James Dunsby.

Pink mist curls through this hugely atmospheric and affecting verse-drama as a haunting symbol of the gulf between being and nothingness. How to cope when a loved one dies: goes "from being there to not", vanishes into "a fine spray of pink, a delicate mist"?

The mission required special permission from Defence Secretary Philip Hammond

The authoritarian leader of Kazakhstan visited David Cameron in Downing Street while he was on a private trip to London with his family this week, it has emerged.

A new multimillion-pound contract for the maintenance of British troops' battlefield radios will secure hundreds of defence jobs across the country, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) has announced.

Attacks come as Taliban steps up intimidation campaign in Ramadan

Panorama discover that at least 50 serving and veteran soldiers took their own lives in 2012.

Zakaria Kandahari ‘fled American base’ in January after his arrest was ordered

Incident marks a continued escalation of violence as Nato forces withdraw from Afghanistan

If you read the tabloids you might think the UK is full of asylum seekers lazing about in Hampstead council mansions

Soldiers from most elite regiment called to give evidence at court martial of Danny Nightingale