Currently the British army has 108,000 personnel, 74,000 of them active duty, including 4,000 Gurkhas and several hundred special operations personnel. Britain already has some troops in eastern ...

Senegalese soldiers continued to be in the French army after World War II. This stands in contrast with the British ... under the leadership of Felix Houphouet-Boigny from the Cote D'Ivoire.

The call came after a 'coalition of the willing' of European countries supporting Ukraine in the war against Russia met in Paris last week and vowed to strengthen Kyiv's army for future security.