“Look at where my ball is!” shouts the instructor. But I can't look as I'm struggling to get up off my knees, after a strange press-up routine, and I barely have time to switch to the next movement.

Landing is part of training operation for French Navy

North Korea has fired off many memorable threats over the years

Just last month a North Korean official has threatened South Korea with “final destruction” during a debate at the UN Conference on Disarmament

Immanuel Kant's vision of a federation of peaceful nations must have seemed like a distant dream from his idyllic Prussian village. Indeed after his death in 1804, wars would blight the continent of Europe shattering entire political systems and the millions of lives of Europeans aching for some semblance of peace and tranquillity in their lives.

Syrian rebels who claimed to have kidnapped a group of UN peacekeepers did an about-face as they said they were in fact rescuing them from danger, in an incident that has thrown a light on escalating violence in a supposed demilitarised zone on the Israeli border.

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.

A comrade of a deceased combatant visits his bereaved family. We know the drill, we know the score of this time-honoured dramatic trope. Don't we?

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.

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

Researchers have now catalogued more than 42,500 institutions used for persecution and death.

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

How we lost the war – all over again

A tribunal has sentenced to death the leader of an Islamic political party over his role in murder and atrocities during the nation’s 1971 war of independence. The decision triggered violence and clashes across the country that left at least 30 people dead.