For over 200 years Nepali Gurkha soldiers have fought and died for the British Armed Forces. More than 200,000 fought in the two World Wars. The Gurkhas have loyally fought for the British all over ...

Former Gurkha soldiers who fought for Britain have brought their 13-day hunger strike outside Downing Street to an end after Defence Secretary Ben Wallace finally agreed to enter talks with the ...

They’ve been described as the world’s most savage soldier, yet the average Nepalese volunteer stands at just five-foot, three-inches tall. Looks are truly deceiving because the men who make the cut to ...

The Parliamentary International Relations Committee today endorsed ‘Report Related to Addressing Problems of Former British Gurkhas’ that calls for the formation of a high-level talks team to hold ...

An Apache helicopter-gunship had just been blazing away at Taliban fighters up ahead when the Afghan farmer ambled up to the Gurkha soldier in the field for a chat. He was concerned, he said, that his ...

KATHMANDU (Reuters) - Nepal has asked India to halt its recruitment of Gurkhas into the Indian army under a new scheme for shorter military contracts until it was clear what would happen to them when ...

The Gurkhas, young men from Nepal who serve in the British military, have served the Queen and the United Kingdom for almost two centuries. Unfortunately, the British government has been less than ...

Gurkhas have been part of the British Army for almost 200 years, but who are these fearsome Nepalese fighters? "Better to die than be a coward" is the motto of the world-famous Nepalese Gurkha ...

Hundreds of Gurkhas face being thrown out of the Armed Forces in swingeing new troop cuts, defence chiefs revealed today. The army is shedding 3,000 soldiers, the RAF is losing another 900 airmen and ...