The Latest Breaking News from the Ministry of Defence

With the British Army at its smallest since 1815 and global tensions rising in 2026, Tory Baroness Goldie urges the government to consider conscription now.

Keir Starmer's plan to recall veterans aged up to 65 faces a critical flaw: the MOD lacks accurate contact details for the 95,000-strong strategic reserve. Annual letter system has proven inadequate.

Attack comes just hours after Russia was roundly condemned at UN Security Council

British armed forces provided support to the United States in its operation to seize a Russian-flagged oil tanker in the North Atlantic on Wednesday, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) has confirmed.

Senior insider says ‘limbo’ at the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory has hit morale and disrupted vital research

British and French forces carried out a joint airstrike on an underground Islamic State weapons depot in Syria, aiming to disrupt the group's ability to rearm and regroup.

One expert said ‘strange phenomena’ is ‘undoubtedly being seen in Irish skies’.

Long-serving Conservative MP and minister who was an ultra-loyalist during the Thatcher years

Claims that the armed police are going door to door to conscript young men in Berlin are false.

The families of the 29 service personnel killed in the Mull of Kintyre crash are meeting government ministers for the first time on Tuesday.

Lance Corporal George Thomas Hooley, a highly rated British paratrooper with deployments in Afghanistan, Africa and Eastern Europe, has been named as the UK service member killed in an accident in Ukraine while observing tests of a new defensive capability. Here is what is known so far about his life,…