The Battle of Newry Road was a running gun battle between British Army helicopters and Provisional Irish Republican Army armed trucks, fought along the lanes east of Crossmaglen, County Armagh, on 23
On 12 December 1993, a unit of the Provisional Irish Republican Army's East Tyrone Brigade ambushed a two-men unmarked mobile patrol of the RUC in Fivemiletown, County Tyrone. Two constables were shot
A British soldier watching the scene of the ambush