Daily updates of how defence is reported in the UK media
Defence related news coverage today focuses on the Queen’s speech as well as further coverage of ISIL, including the story that jihadists have unleashed a wave of suicide attacks targeting...
This morning’s headlines are dominated by the Queen’s speech which is due to take place later today. There is also breaking news that FIFA officials have been arrested on corruption...
Items of Defence interest included in broadcast bulletins this morning include reports of the launch by the Iraqi government to “take back” Ramadi and surrounding western Anbar province from ISIL.
...would invariably lead to the deaths of more young soldiers, and that lessons need to be learnt from the recent history of Iraq and Afghanistan. Our position on this story...
...years on areas such as use of small arms, infantry tactics and medical skills. We have long said that there would be ebb and flow in the fight against...
...against the jihadists. ISIL militants have also claimed responsibility for a fatal bomb blast which ripped through a Shia mosque in Saudi Arabia, killing at least 21 people. The UK...
...a genuine risk to life. The Army's bomb disposal teams are permanently on standby to assist the civil powers in instances of this nature and are amongst the very best...
...training exercise, has lost his £8m damages claim against the MOD. Mirror Online reports that Spencer Vaughan, 27, was left in a wheelchair after a tragic accident on a Canary...
...source and deprive the criminal gangs of their revenue. Iraq The Daily Telegraph contains an article focusing on the ongoing fight against ISIL in Iraq, writing that the full extent...
Of note in today’s broadcast headlines is the news that the United Nations has said nearly 25,000 people are understood to have fled the Iraqi city of Ramadi, as Shia militias reportedly gather near the capital of Anbar Province.
