Norman Irwin, Northern Ireland's oldest citizen, was recently honored by the British Army after celebrating his 107th ...
Behind the scenes of treaty negotiations, British military had spent months preparing for a renewed and far more aggressive ...
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CROSSMAGLEN (Reuters) - 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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
This newsreel "British Evacuate Ireland After Hundreds of Years of Occupation" shows the first 60,000 British Troops to leave Ireland and go back to England in May 1922. As soldiers march past, crowds ...
A soldier from Northern Ireland has opened up on the impact of losing his hearing after the use of "faulty" combat earplugs.
The Connaught Rangers Mutiny of 1920 in India was an act of Irish nationalist defiance against British rule, culminating in ...
A Northern Ireland court Friday found David Holden, a former British soldier, guilty of the 1988 manslaughter of Aidan McAnespie. McAnespie was shot in the back at an army border checkpoint in County ...