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  • David Beckham meets troops in Helmand

    English football star David Beckham arrived at Camp Bastion, the main British base in Afghanistan, last night for a goodwill visit to meet British and US Armed Forces.

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Secretaries of State visit Afghanistan

    The Secretaries of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, Defence, and International Development are today visiting Afghanistan.

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Corporal Stephen Walker killed in Afghanistan

    It is with regret that the Ministry of Defence must announce that Corporal Stephen Walker from 40 Commando Royal Marines, serving as part of Combined Force Sangin, was killed in Afghanistan, yesterday, Friday 21 May 2010.

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  • Afghan Army capture suspected insurgents in Helmand

    Afghan National Army (ANA) soldiers showed their increasing capability to operate independently when 2-3-215 Kandak recently planned and executed two highly successful raids in the Sangin Valley to apprehend eight suspected …

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • New camouflage arrives in Afghanistan

    British military personnel in Afghanistan have started wearing uniforms bearing the first new camouflage design in over 40 years.

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Command and control changes in southern Afghanistan

    Changes to the command and control of ISAF forces in southern Afghanistan, that will see the current Regional Command (South) split in two to better reflect the significant changes on the ground in recent months, have been a…

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Battle Back swimmers train in Gibraltar

    A group of six servicemen from the Battle Back scheme have spent a week in Gibraltar honing their skills at the Army Swimming Team's training camp.

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Working with the Afghan media in Helmand

    As an Afghan Media Officer for Task Force Helmand, Army Captain Niall Taylor helps Afghan journalists tell Afghan people about the work of British and ISAF personnel. Report by Sharon Kean.

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Royal Navy vessels exercise in the Atlantic

    A number of Royal Navy vessels are currently deployed to the eastern seaboard of the USA as part of the AURIGA multinational Naval Task Group.

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Royal Marines storm Sangin bomb factory

    Royal Marines of 40 Commando and their Afghan Army colleagues have stormed an insurgent compound in Helmand, seizing 40kg of homemade explosives and equipment for making improvised explosive devices (IEDs).

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Soldiers in Germany get improved accommodation

    Defence Estates (DE) has completed two significant projects to improve the living accommodation for British soldiers based in Germany.

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Cadet150 celebrated on Britain's oldest floating warship

    Cadets marched on the deck of HMS Trincomalee, based in Hartlepool, in celebration of one of the oldest and most successful voluntary youth …

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Royal Navy diver awarded for role in saving ship

    A Royal Navy diver who battled a major flood for more than 45 minutes in the submerged and darkened engine room of HMS Endurance has received a top honour.

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Commando chefs keep Marines on the go in Sangin

    Working as some of the myriad 'backroom' specialists that allow Marines operating out of Forward Operating Base Jackson in Sangin, Afghanistan, to get on with their daily work are a team of Commando chefs.

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • RAF's Reaper logs 10,000 hours over Afghanistan

    The RAF's Reaper programme has achieved the milestone of providing more than 10,000 hours of armed overwatch in support of UK and coalition forces in Afghanistan.

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Royal Engineers are busy building Bastion

    The UK’s largest military base and centre of operations in Afghanistan, Camp Bastion, has doubled in size in the last year. See Related News…

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Camp Bastion doubles in size

    Camp Bastion, the lynchpin of British, and increasingly American, operations in Helmand, is a desert metropolis, complete with airport, that is expanding at a remarkable pace. Report by Sharon Kean.

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • HMS Chatham destroys pirate boats

    Royal Navy Type 22 frigate HMS Chatham, currently deployed as NATO's counter-piracy flagship, has destroyed two boats after intercepting a group of suspected pirates in the Somali Basin.

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • ISAF and Afghan leaders discuss counter-insurgency and civilian casualties

    ISAF and Afghan leaders have ended two days of discussions on improving counter-insurgency operations and preventing civilian casualties by cataloguing best practices that can be shared by all units operating in Afghanistan.

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • RAF firefighters battle fire at US Helmand base

    The fire broke out in a storage yard on the base at 1800hrs local time on Sunday 16 May 2010. Within half-an-hour the flames were visible from…

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government