BELFAST, Northern Ireland -- The Irish Republican Army must deliver "a full transition from violence to democracy," British Prime Minister Tony Blair declared Thursday during a mission designed to ...

The IRA said it instructed its members to "dump arms." It didn't specify how, or whether members would be allowed to retain any weapons, but said its representative would reopen talks immediately with ...

DUBLIN (AP) -- The Irish National Liberation Army, an IRA splinter group responsible for some of the most notorious killings of the Northern Ireland conflict, renounced violence Sunday and signaled it ...

BELFAST, Northern Ireland – The Irish Republican Army instructed its members yesterday to give up violence and embrace peace. The unprecedented statement also ordered IRA units to abandon their ...

And I'm Robert Siegel. At a time when we are so focused on a struggle against political violence that could go on for some time, it is noteworthy that today there is, at very least, a cease-fire in ...

DUBLIN, Ireland — The Irish Republican Army issued an unprecedented apology Tuesday for hundreds of civilian deaths during 30 years of bombings and other attacks, a surprise gesture that could ease a ...

LONDON Gerry Adams, the leader of the Sinn Fein political wing of the Irish Republican Army, urged IRA fighters Wednesday to pursue their goals through politics as an alternative to "armed struggle." ...

Patrick Magee used bombs to kill people. That much is simple. The more complicated question is whether he was just a murderer or whether the loyal member of the Irish Republican Army was a soldier ...

LONDON, July 17 -- Amid sharply conflicting assessments today of the Irish Republican Army's unprecedented apology for its violence over the past 30 years, people in Northern Ireland looked ahead to ...

The IRA has faced mounting international pressure to disarm and disband since December, when police blamed it for a world-record $50 million bank robbery. The following month IRA members knifed to ...