MPs joined with veterans to honour the Gurkhas who served and laid down their lives in the British Armed Forces at a memorial ...
KATHMANDU (Reuters) - Wrapped in white and with their heads shaven, retired Ghurkha soldiers sat cross-legged on the stems of dried rice plants for three days of symbolic and traditional mourning, ...
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 ...
Ayo Gurkhali'–the famous war cry of the Gurkhas. The Gurkhas became part of the Indian Army only after the Anglo-Nepalese War, and recruitment from Nepal continued even after Independence. But how did ...
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 ...
Gurkhas who relocated to a new military base have celebrated their biggest festival at their new home for the first time. Over the summer, 70 of the Gurkha Parachute Squadron moved from Maidstone in ...
Soldiers from the British Army took part in a gruelling Gurkha race where they carried weighted baskets on an uphill course. They attempted to carry a traditional Nepalese basket called a Doko - ...
British Army Gurkha soldiers patrol through a deserted market street in southern Helmand LONDON (Reuters) -Details of more than 100 British nationals including spies and special forces soldiers were ...
The three soldiers from the reserves of the Royal Anglian Regiment, based in Bury St Edmunds, said they wanted to do ...