YOU WOULDN’T WANT to be a defender of Saddam’s regime right about now. Not only is the country teeming with coalition regulars, but also a vast and deadly array of the world’s elite special forces. We ...

The kukri strapped to Mekhman Tamang’s hip belt is more than an ordinary family heirloom. When his father bequeathed the traditional knife to him 10 years ago, Tamang, a third-generation Gurkha ...

"If someone says he has no fear, either he is lying or he is a Gurkha." That was how Field Marshal Sam Manekshaw once described the legendary courage of the Gurkhas â men whose discipline, loyalty, ...

GRU in Brunei in the early 1990s, with Ram Kangdangwa, sitting third from right. It was evening in September 1996, and some of us Gurkha soldiers who were fed up with the way we were being treated by ...

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 ...

A British court struck down immigration restrictions placed on Gurkha veterans who served in the country’s armed forces, handing a significant victory to a group whose service dates back nearly 200 ...

LONDON (Reuters) - Former Gurkha soldiers from Nepal demonstrated outside the High Court in London on Tuesday before the latest round of their legal bid to win the right to retire in Britain. To the ...