Lieutenant-Colonel Lalbahadur Pun, who has died aged 88, was awarded an MC in 1965 during the Confrontation with Indonesia; ...

Britain will recruit 400 Nepalese Gurkhas for a new artillery regiment, addressing troop shortages and expanding Nepalese soldiers' roles in UK defense. The late and noted American historian Bryan ...

POKHARA, Nepal -- Two centuries later, young men are still being drawn from their poverty-stricken Himalayan hills by the thousands to fight -- and die -- with legendary valor for another man's ...

Gurkha soldiers are set to take artillery roles in the British Army for the first time, in a dedicated unit created amid the military recruitment crisis. The King's Gurkha Artillery (KGA) will consist ...

"Afghanistan was a test for the modern Gurkha, to show our forefathers that we are still meeting the standards they set. It was our chance to show that we are continuing the tradition. So far, so good ...

GRU in Brunei in the early 1990s, with Ram Kangdangwa, sitting third from right. It was evening in September 1996, and some of us Gurkha soldiers who were fed up with the way we were being treated by ...

It is now more than 200 years that men from Nepal have joined the British Army to fight, if needs be, in support of Britain’s overseas interests. And it is 100 years since the end of the First World ...

LONDON (Reuters) - Britain has sent a team of its famed Nepalese Gurkha soldiers to help survivors of the earthquake in their Himalayan homeland, whose prime minister said on Tuesday that the death ...

Britain will recruit 400 Nepalese Gurkhas for a new artillery regiment, addressing troop shortages and expanding Nepalese soldiers’ roles in UK defense. The Gurkhas served alongside the British in the ...