The "Desert Rats" are to lose their tanks in a shake-up of the UK's shrinking Armed Forces, the Ministry of Defence has confirmed.

South American socialist leader dies of cancer aged 58 in a Caracas hospital

What needs to happen now is that the government needs to take a strong grip

A former Soviet soldier who went missing more than three decades ago during Moscow’s ill-fated invasion of Afghanistan has been found alive and well near the city of Herat.

Defence, the environment and economic growth: outgoing premier reveals incoming president's priorities

The closure of Claro barracks in Ripon will put an end to a military association dating back to before the First World War.

A major military restructuring programme announced today will mean that four barracks across the country are closed and three others shrunk - leading to accusations that Scotland in particular will suffer in the process.

The men, who claimed to be farmers, were also threatened by an interrogator, who wielded a pole or tent peg as well as a pistol

Cabinet divisions over public spending surfaced today when Philip Hammond, the Defence Secretary, was slapped down for opposing more cuts in his department.

The final stage in China's once-in-a-decade leadership change is set to begin today with the opening of the National People's Congress, the biggest annual show of power by the ruling Communist Party.

A senior Islamist leader has “probably” died in fighting in the mountains of northern Mali, the French military said today.

The Foreign Secretary William Hague today arrived in Mali for talks with military commanders and local politicians, just weeks after a French force routed Islamist rebels from strongholds in the north of the country.

Soldiers keeping their mouths shut keeps things in the same sorry condition, writes Afghanistan veteran and author Joe Glenton

Gas-plant siege mastermind Belmokhtar is dead, say Africans, but others dismiss reports as PR