A Defence Forces support group is calling on the Government to give more respect to personnel.

The Government is sending Ireland's elite troops to "one of the most dangerous places in the world" but is refusing to pay them increased allowances agreed by independent arbitration in 2010.

130 Irish troops will arrive back in Ireland today, following a six-month deployment in the Middle East.

Russian politicians have approved a bill prohibiting military personnel from using smartphones on duty, a move intended to block leaks of sensitive information on social media.

During World War I, the only way to keep in touch with loved ones who were serving in the armed forces was through letters.

Even soldiers who fight wars from a safe distance have found themselves traumatised. Could their injuries be moral ones? Eyal Press reports.

A landmark case won by the association representing the country’s frontline Defence Forces is expected to open the floodgates for further claims against the Department of Defence.

Two French soldiers have died in Mali after their armoured vehicle was hit by an improvised explosive device.

The soldiers who survived the Siege of Jadotville will be honoured with a special medal today.

Putting troops through battleground training exercises involving live bullets and grenades has been severely curtailed due to the lack of suitably-qualified officers.

Irish soldiers have tested a new generation of air defence weaponry in Sweden to ensure the Defence Forces has a “state of the art” system for the next 20 years.

The Department of Defence has confirmed plans to honour Irish soldiers who fought in the Siege of Jadotville in 1961 and whose bravery was highlighted in a recent Netflix film starring Jamie Dornan.

More than 60 members of the Defence Forces either failed or missed mandatory drug tests in the past five years.

Defence chiefs have been ordered to review the refusal to award medals to soldiers in the ill-fated 1961 United Nations mission in the Congo which led to the Siege of Jadotville.

Four Russian servicemen were killed in Syria when their vehicle struck a roadside bomb, officials have said.

More than 700 Irish soldiers get millions of euro every year as part of a “border duty allowance”, despite paramilitary activity dwindling and many of the officers living hundreds of miles from Northern Ireland.

Update 1pm It has emerged that over 700 soldiers are still being paid an allowance for working at the border with the North - which was scrapped eight years ago.

The British Ministry of Defence has apologised for the death of an Iraqi boy, who drowned after being left to die in a canal by British soldiers.

Israeli soldiers have been banned from playing Pokemon Go on military bases due to security concerns.

Irish soldiers should be given a choice of whether to use a controversial anti-malaria drug, according to the group that represents Irish Defence Forces.

Six foreign soldiers were killed in a suicide attack near the US-run Bagram Airfield in Afghanistan, said Nato.

France has invoked a never before used part of the Lisbon Treaty that could see Irish troops sent to Mali on peacekeeping duties.

A man who murdered two soldiers and wounded three people in what Bosnia’s prime minister said was an “attack on the state” blew himself up as police were about to enter his home, authorities have said.

189 Irish soldiers are settling back home after returning from a tour of duty in Lebanon.