With a cannon blast and a piercing whistle, Britain and France on Friday marked 100 years since soldiers emerged from their trenches to begin one of the bloodiest battles of World War I at the River Somme.

A Belgian nurse who helped save hundreds of American soldiers during the Battle of the Bulge at the end of World War II has died.

A section of a Russian military barracks collapse, killing 23 soldiers near the Siberian city of Omsk.

Atleast 10 Colombian soldiers die following in an attack by left-wing Farc rebels in west of the country