They’ve been described as the world’s most savage soldier, yet the average Nepalese volunteer stands at just five-foot, three-inches tall. Looks are truly deceiving because the men who make the cut to ...

February 15, 2010: The Emir of Kuwait is seeking to hire Gurkhas as bodyguards. Hiring foreigners for key security jobs is an old tradition in the Middle East. For over a decade, Saudi Arabia had one ...

The town of Pokhara, a half hour by plane west of Kathmandu, the capital of Nepal, lies in a dank and humid valley beneath the glittering snows and granite of the Annapurna range of the Himalayas.

Retired Gurkhas from Nepal have launched a High Court battle in London for the right to live in the United Kingdom. To the sound of bagpipes, they carried a portrait of Queen Elizabeth II and waved ...

**July 1914** In 1914, Nepali Gurkha battalions (‘Gurks’) and Allied forces were deployed in what would prove to be a disastrous campaign to take control of the high ground of the Gallipoli peninsula ...

"If someone says he has no fear, either he is lying or he is a Gurkha." That was how Field Marshal Sam Manekshaw once described the legendary courage of the Gurkhas â men whose discipline, loyalty, ...

Gurkhas have been part of the British Army for almost 200 years, but who are these fearsome Nepalese fighters? "Better to die than be a coward" is the motto of the world-famous Nepalese Gurkha ...