Kenya is to launch a public inquiry into alleged crimes committed by British troops including the murder of a young prostitute. Kenya’s National Assembly Defence, Intelligence, and Foreign Relations Committee adopted the proposal last week, announcing that the inquiry would involve the UK Embassy. MPs said the move follows residents’ concerns over activities of soldiers…

Just 54 out of 145 British military personnel accused of serious sexual crimes have been convicted, analysis by The Epoch Times can reveal. The figures, taken from official Ministry of Defence (MoD) court martial records, show that as many as 10 members of the military face court each month on sex offences, including sexual assault,…

Kenya has made major changes to its defence agreement with the UK over allegations a British soldier brutally killed a local sex worker. Murder will now be a triable offence for UK troops after Kenyan MPs voted in favour of amending its Kenya-UK Defence Cooperation Agreement. It means soldiers deployed to the former British colony…

The army’s “troubled” Ajax armoured vehicles order is now back on track after remedies were put in place to fix the issues, Defence Secretary Ben Wallace said on Wednesday. Inspecting Ajax trials near the Bovington Camp, Wallace said the Ministry of Defence (MoD) aims to deploy the vehicles soon after the testing programme is completed in about…

LONDON—A regimental sergeant major in the British Army accused of stealing “deadly” ammunition and selling it, through an accomplice, to an undercover police officer posing as a gangster, told detectives money found in a safe in his bedroom was from the sale of car parts. But prosecutor Duncan Atkinson, QC, told a jury at Southwark…

The UK government’s decision to go ahead with planned troop cuts despite the war in Ukraine is “madness” and will put the British Army at “breaking point,” a former army chief has warned. At the NATO summit in Madrid last week, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said the government will increasing its defence spending to 2.5…

An investigation is underway after the British Army’s social media accounts were briefly hijacked on Sunday. The army’s YouTube channel was renamed “Ark Invest”—a global investment management firm—and featured a number a videos on cyptocurrency with images of billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk. The Epoch Times has contacted Ark Invest for comment. Its Twitter account was…

Six British Army soldiers with the Irish Guards regiment and a former member of the Coldstream Guards have been arrested on suspicion of drugs and money laundering offences. The Ministry of Defence (MoD) issued a statement that said: “As part of a planned operation the Royal Military Police arrested six Irish Guards soldiers and a…

Commentary Military effectiveness depends upon many factors, the most important of which is military leadership. In a bold new book, Lt. Col. Langley Sharp, of the British Army’s Center for Army Leadership, has written “The Habit of Excellence: Why British Army Leadership Works.” In the book, he explains why the British army has had great…

A British soldier who died during an Army training exercise last Friday has been named as Private Jethro Watson-Pickering. Watson-Pickering, 23, of the 1st Battalion of the Yorkshire Regiment, was a member of a crew operating an armoured vehicle in a training area in Wiltshire, when the incident happened. In a statement, the regiment said…