British Defense Secretary Michael Fallon has offered on Saturday to send 30 more British soldiers to Iraq to provide training in logistics and bridge-building, as well as specialist medical staff.
Thousands of British troops could lose their jobs in a fresh wave of cost-cutting redundancies.
Two British soldiers have confessed to abusing Afghan civilians, including one child, during their presence as international forces in Afghanistan.
Three British soldiers have been killed after their vehicle hit an improvised explosive device in in Afghanistan's southern province of Helmand.