EXCLUSIVE: The Ministry of Defence has been urged to clarify the plans after confirming a single battalion group will be formed from 'predominately' two units.

Parts of the Parachute Regiment are set to be stripped of routine parachute training under plans to narrow the Army’s airborne capability.

The British Army’s elite airborne infantry regiment, widely known as the Paras and formally part of the 16 Air Assault Brigade, is at the centre of debate about its future role and capabilities after ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. SANNERVILLE, France, June 5 (Reuters) - Two British war veterans in their mid-nineties parachuted over the fields of Normandy, ...

Defence cost-cutting measures could see Britain's elite Parachute Regiment being stripped of its parachutes in favour of more affordable means of deployment. The legendary unit, renowned for heroic ...

Former British Parachute Regiment soldiers, now elderly, could face murder charges over the 1972 Bloody Sunday killings in Derry. On March 14, Northern Ireland's Public Prosecution Service (PPS) will ...

U.S. World War II paratrooper veteran Tom Rice, 97 years-old who served with the 101st Airbone, lands during a commemorative parachute jump over Carentan on the Normandy coast U.S. World War II ...