Irish Republican Army News

Special Branch police officers in Northern Ireland were aware of intelligence on the Omagh bombing soon after the atrocity but it was not passed onto investigators for five months, Nuala O'Loan, the former ombudsman, has claimed.

Neo-Nazis are plotting a 'spectacular' terrorist attack on Britain to fuel racial tension, Scotland Yard's counter-terrorism officers fear.

Two former members of the security forces in Northern Ireland received death threats from the Real IRA, it was claimed today.

A FORMER IRA prisoner has led demands for sectarian attacks on Orange halls to stop, after yet more halls were vandalised.

The IRA bomber Patrick Magee will return next week to Brighton, where he tried, 20 years ago, to blow up the British Cabinet.

DUP MP William McCrea has been informed by police of a Real IRA threat against his life.

A network of suspected far-right extremists with access to 300 weapons and 80 bombs has been uncovered by counter-terrorism detectives.

The American citizen, accused of involvement in the alleged IRA raid on Belfast's top security base seven years ago, has spoken of how the claim devastated his life.

The public inquiry into the 1999 murder of a Belfast human rights lawyer is now preparing its report.

The case against a former chef sought in connection with a 2002 break-in at a top security base in Northern Ireland dramatically collapsed on Friday.

A row has erupted over plans to hold a commemoration for dead IRA members in the Guildhall in Derry .

Britain unveiled a new medal Wednesday that will be offered to families of about 8,000 military personnel killed on active duty or in terrorist attacks since World War II.

The arrest of British embassy staff is the latest flare-up between two countries that have a long history of mistrust Troubled relations between the UK and Iran have hit a new low with the arrest of several local staff at the British embassy in Iran and last week's tit-for-tat expulsion of each other's diplomats.

Ian Paisley and Martin McGuiness broke no laws by deciding to appoint four victims commissioners in Northern Ireland, the High Court has ruled.

A monitoring organisation responsible for overseeing the decommissioning of weapons in the North confirmed that two loyalist terrorist groups have disposed of arms.

Cigarette and tobacco smuggling is financing militant or extremist groups such as the Pakistani Taliban and sapping about $40bn a year from government budgets, campaigners said on Monday.

Northern Ireland's disarmament chief announced Monday he has witnessed a major weapons handover by the Ulster Volunteer Force, an outlawed group that terrorized Irish Catholics for decades - but he cannot confirm if the shadowy gang has surrendered all of its arsenal.

Northern Ireland achieved another important milestone in peacemaking Saturday as the territory's two major Protestant paramilitary groups announced their first acts of disarmament -- and pledged that their decades of slaughtering Catholic civilians were over for good.

The main loyalist paramilitary groups in Northern Ireland announced Saturday they were decommissioning their weapons, a new milestone on the road to peace after decades of unrest.

Loyalist paramilitaries in Northern Ireland are set to confirm they have decommissioned a major cache of weapons.