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A Royal Navy Sea King helicopter from HMS Gannet in Prestwick, Scotland, battled difficult conditions yesterday morning, Monday 5 December, to rescue a woman on the Isle of Arran.

British Foreign Secretary William Hague has said that a blueprint for the international community’s long-term engagement with Afghanistan beyond 2014 was established at yesterday’s International Afghanistan Conference held in Bonn, Germany.

British soldiers embedded with an Afghan National Army unit recently to offer advice on a three-day operation to clear a vital supply route and search for insurgents.

Families and friends of sailors serving on board HMS St Albans and HMS Edinburgh gathered at Portsmouth Naval Base on Friday, 2 December, to greet their loved ones returning from overseas deployments.

British soldiers training Afghan police have hailed the success of a training course that has seen its biggest intake ever.

The Royal Navy has come to the aid of a Spanish fishing vessel under pirate attack in the Indian Ocean this week.

HMS Victory, the world’s oldest commissioned warship, is to be returned to her former glory thanks to a ten-year restoration programme.

Sixty officers and soldiers from 214 Signal Squadron, part of 21st Signal Regiment (Air Support), have received Afghanistan operational service medals in York Minster.

For the run-up to Christmas, the MOD online news team has once again picked out the images that best represent our defence news coverage over the past year.

Air Chief Marshal Sir Stuart Peach has taken up post as the first Commander of Joint Forces Command (JFC) today and will be responsible for commanding and generating allocated joint capabilities.