The British army is much smaller now, but the percentage of soldiers on active duty is more than in the Second World War. Their deployments include Northern Ireland, the Balkans and Iraq.

Britain’s top army commander said the presence of British troops in Iraq was exacerbating security problems on the ground and they should be withdrawn soon. In an interview with the Daily Mail ...

CAMP FOX, Kuwait -- Almost 45 years after the British were forced out of Iraq, they are preparing to return. This time, the British military assembling in northern Kuwait has been assigned to take ...

The former head head of the British army has launched a scathing attack on the Blair government, saying the military is overstreteched in Iraq and Afghanistan. Sir Michael Jackson says the ...

BAGHDAD, June 24 -- Six British military police were killed in a town in southern Iraq, British officials said today, in the deadliest incident for foreign forces in the country since the fall of ...

Military and political analysts said a British drawdown in the region could leave a vacuum that could provide shelter to militiamen displaced during stepped-up U.S.-Iraqi operations in Baghdad, in ...

UMM QASR, Iraq -- Striking before dawn, British tanks and infantry staged a lightning raid into besieged Basra on Saturday, destroying five Iraqi tanks and blowing up two statues of Saddam Hussein ...

LONDON – British operations in Iraq are officially ending, more than eight years after the country joined the U.S.-led invasion that toppled dictator Saddam Hussein. Most British troops left the ...

The new facilities will strengthen British military operations in the Persian Gulf, via the deployment of the Royal Navy’s Type 45 destroyers, frigates and aircraft carriers, including the two ...

Both clashes occurred near Amarah, a town about 180 miles southeast of Baghdad in the region controlled by U.K. forces. “It’s normally very quiet down here,” British Army Lt. Col. Ronnie ...

LONDON — After years of delay, the British government said Monday it would proceed with a wide-ranging inquiry into the country’s role in the Iraq war, an issue that has caused deep political ...