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 ...

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 ...

The only British soldier charged with murder over the Bloody Sunday massacre has gone on trial in Northern Ireland, more than half a century after paratroopers opened fire on unarmed civil rights ...

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 ...

The army watchtowers have gone and British soldiers no longer search homes looking for wanted men but for many in Northern Ireland’s border towns the trauma of conflict still burns. The British army ...

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.

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.

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BELFAST, Northern Ireland — The British army will slash its garrison in Northern Ireland to peacetime levels, demolish spy towers in Catholic areas and disband its overwhelmingly Protestant local ...