The Ministry of Defence expresses 'deep regret' after five Afghan children are injured during an assault by a British Apache helicopter on Taliban fighters... more
A Royal Marine whose culinary skills on BBC show The Restaurant persuaded Raymond Blanc to offer him a gastropub has quit and is now working in Afghanistan... more
Prince Harry is in intensive training to take part in a gruelling 200-mile trek across Arctic pack ice to the North Pole with four disabled soldiers... more
So wrote Lt Mark Evison just before he was fatally wounded in Afghanistan. But did the shortages he was decrying contribute to his own killing, asks Ross Lydall... more
Afghan despatches: Keeping the 21,000 people in Camp Bastion safe from the Taliban is an unenviable task of the 100 men who make up the RAF Force Protection Wing... more
The British Army’s major field hospital in Helmand is at Camp Bastion. It is air-conditioned, has eight intensive care beds and two wards that can treat 25 patients.... more
The true cost of the bloody campaign in Helmand is now being revealed, though slowly, with the publication of the casualty figures at the beginning of this month... more
British troops fighting in Afghanistan were praised as "true heroes" by Gordon Brown as he compared their daily professionalism to that of our Olympic athletes... more
Exclusive: After high-profile allegations this season, Charlton's manager is pleased the issue is now being addressed but says the authorities still have plenty of work to do
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