Unionist leaders at Westminster have questioned the government’s commitment to Northern Ireland on defence – as Labour set ...

Former Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams won his libel suit against the BBC on Friday over a claim that he authorized the killing of an informant inside the Irish republican movement.

Adams sued over an allegation in a 2016 documentary that he sanctioned the 2006 killing of a British spy in Ireland. A jury ...

Gerry Adams won a €100,000 libel case against the BBC over a documentary alleging he authorized an IRA informant’s killing, a ...

EXCLUSIVE: A petition launched by a veteran of Operation Banner has urged the government not to open the floodgates to prosecutions of veterans.

the Northern Ireland Secretary, to spare ageing ex-British soldiers from being dragged before the courts for actions taken while on duty during the Troubles. A draft letter seen by the Mail on ...

Veterans of the British military who served in Northern Ireland during The Troubles march along Westminster, central London (Ben Whitley/PA) Veterans who served in the British Army during the ...

Veterans who served in the British Army during the Northern Ireland troubles have marched on Parliament calling for the retention of the Legacy Act. It comes as the current Labour Government is to ...

The top British soldier in Northern Ireland was so enraged by the establishment of a new inquiry into Bloody Sunday that he launched an extraordinary attack on his own government, accusing it of a ...

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Some 3,600 people were killed — most in Northern Ireland, though the IRA also ... for most offenses by militant groups and British soldiers after May 1. But a Belfast judge ruled in February ...