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Anyone familiar with Irish history will know that a watershed moment in the Troubles occurred on 30 January 1972 when British Army paratroopers opened fire on civil rights protesters in Derry, killing ...

If a hoard of HUMVEEs rolled through your average American city center, the response would be nothing short of pandemonium. Happily, Americans seldom get close to the conditions needed for army trucks ...

A Belfast court on Thursday found a British soldier not guilty of murder in the only trial of a member of the British armed ...

After 38 years, the British army is standing down in Northern Ireland. At midnight Tuesday, British troops will formally end their nearly four-decade mission to bolster security in Northern Ireland.

DUBLIN, Feb 13 (Reuters) - Britain removed the last of its armoured watch towers in Northern Ireland on Tuesday in a significant symbolic step towards erasing the visible reminders of the province's ...

The only British soldier charged with murder over the 1972 Bloody Sunday massacre in Northern Ireland went on trial Monday in Belfast in a case that has come to symbolise the three decades of violence ...

Inquests into the deaths of 10 people in Northern Ireland’s capital Belfast during a British Army operation in August 1971 concluded on Tuesday that all of them were civilians who posed no threat to ...

At midnight last night, the British army's operation in Northern Ireland came to an end. It was nearly 40 years ago that British troops entered the province in a campaign codenamed Operation Banner.

BELFAST (Reuters) -A Belfast court on Thursday found a British soldier not guilty of murder and attempted murder over the ...