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French resistance fighters held by Vichy regime militias during World War II. (CC-BY-SA German Federal Archive Wikimedia Commons)
November 8, 2017, 11:28 am
Operation Torch saved Jews 75 years ago
How the US and UK stepped up to spare 400,000 Vichy Jews from deadly mass deportations
By Edith Shaked Perlman
British Army soldiers are led by a police officer into Buckingham Palace in central London on May 24, 2017. (AFP PHOTO / Daniel LEAL-OLIVAS)
September 12, 2017, 4:18 am
Two British soldiers charged with neo-Nazi links
Indictments presented for being members of National Action, a banned white supremacist group; third man accused of possessing documents useful for terrorists
By AFP
In this Thursday Dec. 22, 2005 file photo, the then British prime minister Tony Blair meets soldiers at Shaibah logistics base, Basra, Iraq. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth, File)
July 31, 2017, 6:18 pm
UK court blocks bid to prosecute Blair over 2003 Iraq war
High Court says former British PM cannot be accused of 'crime of aggression' under domestic law
By AP
A crew member stands on the deck of the Russian Navy's Buyan-class missile corvette Serpukhov during the International Maritime Defense Show in Saint Petersburg on June 28, 2017. (AFP PHOTO / Olga MALTSEVA)
June 29, 2017, 2:37 pm
Russia calls UK carrier ‘convenient target’ in naval war of words
Moscow angrily lashes out after UK defense secretary dismissively terms Russia's only aircraft carrier 'dilapidated'
By AFP
A police officer stands on duty outside a residential property on Aston Avenue in Fallowfield, Manchester, May 24, 2017. (AFP/Oli SCARFF)
May 24, 2017, 2:50 pm
3 more arrested in Manchester, terrorist’s Libya ties probed
Army deployed to guard Buckingham Palace, 10 Downing street and other sites until security forces certain no active plot in place, says UK home secretary
By Jill Lawless and Gregory Katz
This file photo taken on March 21, 2017 shows Britain's Prince Harry after a meeting with representatives of the Yes You Can personal development project at Hamilton Community College in Leicester, England, on March 21, 2017. (Joe Giddens/Pool/AFP)
April 18, 2017, 2:39 am
Prince Harry suffered ‘total chaos’ over Diana’s death
British royal, who served two tours in Afghanistan during his 10 years in the military, speaks out on mental health
By AFP
March 23, 2017, 10:39 pm
Night in Tel Aviv
Musings on homeland, terrorism, London casualties, the complications of occupation, and naive Israeli hot-heads
By Maxim Reider
A bottle of Gordon’s Dry Gin found at a World War I British camp near Ramle in March 2017 (Assaf Peretz, courtesy of Israel Antiquities Authority)
March 22, 2017, 1:13 pm
Archaeologists uncork 100-year-old liquor stash left by British troops
Aside from bottles of gin and whiskey knocked back by World War I soldiers, excavation near Ramle also turns up silver tip of swagger stick, medallion with face of Egypt's King Fuad
By Ilan Ben Zion
An Iraqi army tank heads to the frontline during a battle against the Islamic State group near the Fourth Bridge over the Tigris River connecting eastern and western Mosul on January 10, 2017. (AFP/Dimitar Dilkoff)
February 12, 2017, 1:38 am
UK sees IS being ousted from Iraq towns this year
Jihadist group in retreat as government troops, allied militias gain ground in five-month offensive focused on Mosul
By AFP
L-R: Princess Elizabeth, Queen Elizabeth, Winston Churchill, King George VI and Princess Margaret on the balcony of Buckingham Palace on May 8, 1945 (Wikimedia Commons/Public Domain)
October 17, 2016, 9:39 am
UK devised WWII plan to save royal family from Nazis
Details of top-secret operation emerge after death of elite officer involved in thwarting potential Hitler plot to force London's surrender
By TOI staff
In this May 6, 2006 file photo, a British trooper falls after apparently being hit by a rock, as British troops move towards a helicopter crash site in Basra, Iraq's second-largest city, 550 kilometers (340 miles) southeast of Baghdad. Britain’s prime minister announced plans on Oct. 4, 2016 to protect British troops from dubious legal claims made during conflicts. (AP Photo/Nabil Al-Jurani, File)
October 4, 2016, 6:50 pm
Britain moves to protect its soldiers from abuse prosecutions
UK to opt out of EU human rights convention in wartime, PM May says; Israel and UK long at odds over Palestinian groups' efforts to prosecute Israelis for war crimes
By TOI staff and AP
British Defense Minister Michael Fallon talks to British pilots and soldiers at RAF Akrotiri, a British air base near the coastal city of Limassol, Cyprus, Saturday, Dec. 5, 2015. (AP Photo/Pavlos Vrionides)
October 4, 2016, 9:28 am
UK to opt out of European human rights convention in wartime
Controversial plan to be unveiled at Conservative Party conference, aimed at halting 'vexatious claims' against British troops
By TOI staff
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