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 ...

"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, ...

KATHMANDU, Aug 29 (Reuters) - Nepal has asked India to halt its recruitment of Gurkhas into the Indian army under a new scheme for shorter military contracts until it was clear what would happen to ...

FARNBOROUGH, England, Nov 8 (Reuters) - Retired Captain Birbahadur Thapa served in the British army for 28 years as part of the Brigade of Gurkhas, the fighting force recruited in Nepal whose ...

Khathar hunnu bhanda marhu ramro. Or in English: "It is better to die than live a coward." That's the motto of the Brigade of Gurkhas, as London financial sector workers are about to find out.

FOR 200 years Gurkhas have fought alongside British armed forces from Gallipoli to Iraq and Afghanistan, enhancing their reputation as tough fighters. THREE generations of the royal family will be ...

June 19 -- It was a series of bloody conflicts fought in the great hill ranges of northeastern India in the early 19th century that saw big battle losses and grudging admiration on both sides for ...

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 ...