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  • Royal Marines stateside for live firing exercise

    Despite the devastation wreaked by Hurricane Sandy, 42 Commando Royal Marines have commenced training in Twentynine Palms, California.

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Royal Marines storm former Cold War base

    Royal Marines and Albanian forces recently joined together for an assault on an abandoned Soviet submarine base as part of Exercise Albanian Lion.

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Southern Israel and Gaza

    Foreign Secretary William Hague calls on Hamas to end its terrorism and violence and Israel to take every opportunity to de-escalate the situation.

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • This week at the Foreign Office

    A look at the work of the Foreign Office and its embassies overseas this week.

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • UK hosts international meeting to consider further political and non-lethal practical support to the Syrian Opposition Coalition

    Participants welcomed the formation of the National Coalition of the Syrian Revolutionary and Opposition Forces and recognised the agreement reached in Doha on 11 November as an important milestone towards a political transi…

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Call me Padre' - meet the Army's head chaplain

    Chaplain-General the Reverend Jonathan Woodhouse talks to Lorraine McBride about issues of faith and his role as head of the British Army Chaplaincy.

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Bagger meets Type 45 for first time

    A Royal Navy airborne surveillance Sea King helicopter has worked together with a Type 45 destroyer for the first time.

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Foreign Secretary statement on Gaza and southern Israel

    Foreign Secretary William Hague: "I utterly condemn rocket attacks from Gaza into southern Israel by Hamas and other armed groups."

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Foreign Office Minister welcomes Middle East champions of reform to UK

    Foreign Office Minister for the Middle East, Alistair Burt, today welcomed 17 Fellows from Bahrain, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon and Oman to London from a regional John Smith Memorial Trust (JSMT) programme.

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Statement on PM phone call with Benjamin Netanyahu

    Discussion focused on situation in Gaza and Southern Israel

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Royal Navy Lynx joins French frigate for counter-piracy ops

    The first Royal Navy Lynx helicopter to join a French frigate for a full counter-piracy deployment has arrived on board the ship in Toulon, on France's south coast.

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Brunei-based British forces remember the fallen

    Soldiers from British Forces Brunei (BFB) have paid their respects to fallen Service personnel by laying wreaths at several sites across Borneo, including a sunken ship.

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Hundreds gather in Barnsley to welcome home the Light Dragoons

    Hundreds of people lined the streets of Barnsley yesterday to welcome home soldiers of the Light Dragoons from Afghanistan.

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • New fleet of RFA tankers named

    Four new Royal Fleet Auxiliary (RFA) tankers, which will be bought as part of the Military Afloat Reach and Sustainability (MARS) programme, will be called the Tide Class.

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • From stabilisation to transition in Afghanistan

    Transition means a new role for stabilisation writes Ian Carr from Nad 'Ali (South).

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • 19th Regiment Royal Artillery receive Afghanistan medals

    Soldiers from 19th Regiment Royal Artillery received their Afghanistan Operational Service Medals on Saturday 10 November after their deployment as part of 12th Mechanized Brigade in Helmand province.

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • RAF catering squadron sustains charity Sleep Out

    Fresh from feeding Armed Forces personnel during the Olympics, No 3 Mobile Catering Squadron (3 MCS) were back in action in London last week, playing their part in the first ever UK-wide 'Sleep Out' in support of Cen…

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Written Ministerial Statement on the Foreign Affairs Council

    Foreign Office Minister David Lidington statement on the Foreign Affairs Council, the Defence Foreign Affairs Council and the General Affairs Council.

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • 2012 Community Covenant Conference

    Swapping ideas and experiences and sharing best practice were all themes of the 2012 Armed Forces Community Covenant Conference. Report by Lorraine McBride.

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • IN PICTURES: Services around the globe mark Remembrance Sunday

    Services of Remembrance took place on board Royal Navy ships, in Army barracks and at RAF stations across the UK and around the world this year as well as in towns and cities up and down the country.

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government