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.

Driven by longstanding enmities between Catholics and Protestants over British rule, the conflict pitted neighbor against neighbor in acts of guerrilla warfare. The Troubles is a euphemism for the ...

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 ...