LONDON, Oct. 6 (UPI) -- British Prime Minister Gordon Brown rejected a call earlier this year to send 2,000 more troops to Afghanistan, the former head of the British Army says.

LONDON, Aug. 23 (UPI) -- A report allegedly buried by the government asserts British forces in Afghanistan are being endangered by inadequate support, The Sunday Times of London says.

WELLS, England, Aug. 7 (UPI) -- Two German soldiers served as pallbearers Thursday as the last British veteran of the World War I war in the trenches was laid to rest.

LONDON, July 22 (UPI) -- Retiring Foreign and Commonwealth Office Minister Mark Malloch-Brown agrees that British troops in Afghanistan don't have enough helicopters.

LONDON, July 17 (UPI) -- The head of the British Army warned of strategic failure in Afghanistan Friday as he demanded more permanent troops for that country.

LONDON, July 15 (UPI) -- A recent public opinion poll in Britain suggest support for the Afghan mission is holding up at around 50 percent, but there are growing doubts about how long it will be sustained unless there is clear and tangible progress in defeating the Taliban insurgency.

LONDON, June 19 (UPI) -- An illegal stowaway from Afghanistan eluded multiple security checks to sneak into the famous British military college Sandhurst aboard a bus, authorities said.

LONDON, March 30 (UPI) -- British soldiers in Iraq paid a price in dramatically increased attacks when attention was switched to Afghanistan in 2005, a top military official says.

LONDON, March 1 (UPI) -- The officer in charge of the British army is renting a Kensington Palace flat once used by Diana, princess of Wales, documents show.