The marksman's commanding officer says the bullet hit a suspected militant who was wearing a vest rigged with explosives. The subsequent blast... A shot fired by a British Army sniper at a suspected ...

Ukraine claimed in November that one of its snipers killed a Russian soldier 1.68 miles away. That could make it the second-longest sniper kill of all time. There's no universally verified list of the ...

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Shane Matthews, who fought in Afghanistan and Iraq, said that Ukrainian soldiers are fighting "like the Taliban on steroids". He is currently based in Kyiv, helping to fortify the city and train ...

The article was published the day before a British soldier in Woolwich was brutally killed in an apparent extreme Islamist attack. The article referred to "bungling" MoD officials who revealed the ...

‘Sniper tourists’ from Britain spent tens of thousands of pounds to travel to Sarajevo to shoot at civilians during the Bosnian-Serb army’s siege in the 1990s, it has been alleged. These claims are ...