Britain's Queen Elizabeth II shook the hand of a former Irish Republican Army commander in Belfast, Northern Ireland.
A cheering crowd greets Britain's Queen Elizabeth II in Enniskillen, Northern Ireland.
Queen Elizabeth's jubilee tour strikes an historic note today, when the British monarch visits Northern Ireland on a trip it is hoped will mark a symbolic end to the decades-long conflict there.
Britain's Queen Elizabeth II arrived in Northern Ireland Tuesday for a two-day diamond jubilee visit during which she will shake hands with a former IRA commander, Martin McGuinness, in a highly symbolic gesture.
Britain's Queen Elizabeth II is to meet a former IRA commander, Martin McGuinness, during her visit to Northern Ireland next week.
CNN's Nic Robertson brings us the story of one woman whose high-profile murder was never solved.
An abandoned van containing a device with 600 pounds of explosives was found in Newry, Northern Ireland, near the border with the Republic of Ireland, police said Saturday.
Northern Ireland police find an abandoned van containing a device with 600 pounds of explosives in Newry.
Two Irish Republican Army dissidents were found guilty Friday of murdering a police officer in a killing that shocked Northern Ireland three years ago.
Ian Paisley, the firebrand Northern Ireland unionist politician, has been released from the hospital after three weeks, his wife said Tuesday.
One of Northern Ireland's biggest and most expensive terrorist trials ended Wednesday with 12 of 13 defendants cleared of all charges against them, including murder, kidnapping and having guns.
Ian Paisley, the evangelist who made peace in Northern Ireland after leading Protestants against compromise with Roman Catholics for years, has been hospitalized for an unreported condition, his wife said in a statement Monday.
A suspected member of an Irish Republican Army splinter group was found guilty Friday of murdering two soldiers outside a British army base in Northern Ireland almost three years ago.
Two bombs went off at separate locations in the Northern Ireland city of Londonderry, police said Thursday.
An Irishman has been convicted in Lithuania of attempting to smuggle arms from the Baltic state to paramilitary group the Real IRA.
The family of a high-profile Catholic lawyer murdered during the conflict in Northern Ireland walked out on a meeting with British Prime Minister David Cameron Tuesday after he refused to order a public inquiry into the controversial killing.
The tragedy of Ireland's violent past seemed close to the surface this week as an Irish presidential candidate was confronted about his former role as an IRA commander, and Britain's prime minister talked with a family about a Catholic victim of "the troubles."
VICE looks at the religious conflict in Northern Ireland and talks to former Irish National Liberation Army members.
There was a time when the conflict in Northern Ireland suffused popular culture, with its easily explicable cast of Catholics and Protestants and its deceptively simple narrative of joining the Republic of Ireland versus remaining under the protective wing of Great Britain. The Irish Republican Army (IRA) loomed large -- an irregular force giving the Brits hell, a pre-Al Qaeda byword for terrorism.
Martin McGuinness, the Sinn Fein candidate for president of Ireland, refused Monday to answer questions about his past as a local commander of the Provisional IRA.
Martin McGuinness, the Sinn Fein candidate for president of Ireland, refused Monday to answer questions about his past as a local commander of the Provisional IRA.
Northern Ireland's Martin McGuinness will be the Sinn Fein candidate for president of the Republic of Ireland when elections are held next month, the party's executive committee voted unanimously Sunday.
Former IRA leader Martin McGuinness is set to stand as a candidate in the Republic of Ireland's presidential election next month, Sinn Fein announced Friday.
Two police officers have been injured in an attack in Northern Ireland, police said Friday.
One of Northern Ireland's biggest terrorist trials in decades started Tuesday at Belfast Crown Court amid tight security.
Sectarian violence flared up Saturday in Londonderry as Protestants continued their annual marching season in this predominantly Catholic city in Northern Ireland.
Up to 700 rioters in Northern Ireland clashed with police, throwing petrol bombs and bricks. CNN's Dan Rivers reports.
Dissident republicans were responsible for the shooting of a newspaper photographer during riots in Belfast Tuesday night, police said Wednesday.
CNN's Peter Taggart reports on riots breaking out in Northern Ireland where at least two people have been injured.
Police clashed with hundreds of rioters in eastern Belfast on Tuesday in the second straight night of sectarian violence there.
Sectarian rioting broke out in eastern Belfast late Monday, with leaders from both Catholic and Protestant communities reporting attacks on homes overnight.
Masked men, allegedly shouting they were members of the Irish Republican Army, abandoned a small bomb and fled a commercial area in Londonderry, Northern Ireland, the mayor said Saturday.
Queen Elizabeth II's expression of sympathy for those who suffered during the long, bloody conflict between Ireland and England does not go far enough, the head of the Irish republican Sinn Fein party said Thursday.
TV3 journalist Vincent Browne says Queen Elizabeth's visit closes the rapprochement between Ireland and Britain.
It is a state visit that many in Ireland believed would never happen. But when the UK's Queen Elizabeth II lands in Dublin on Tuesday it will mark the reconciliation between two neighboring countries that once viewed each with suspicion and hostility.
Queen Elizabeth II visited Croke Park stadium in Dublin Wednesday on the second day of her landmark tour of Ireland.
Queen Elizabeth II visits Croke Park, a symbol of Irish independence. CNN's Fionnuala Sweeney reports.
So you thought it was all over in Northern Ireland? So did we. Trouble is, it's not quite.
Thousands of people are expected to march in Northern Ireland on Sunday to commemorate the 1972 Bloody Sunday massacre of local people by British troops.
Police in the Republic of Ireland released one man but were continuing to question four suspected IRA dissidents after the discovery of what officers described as "a bomb-making factory," they said Thursday.
A 22-year-old man was due to appear in court Friday in Northern Ireland charged with using a 200-pound bomb to attack a police station, police said.
A Northern Ireland court gave the go-ahead Thursday for the trial of two men charged with shooting dead two British soldiers last year.
Human remains found in the Republic of Ireland last month have been positively identified as those of Gerry Evans, one of the IRA's so-called Disappeared, a special commission said Monday.
Bomb attacks by dissidents in Northern Ireland nearly quadrupled over the past six months from the period before, a report from the Independent Monitoring Commission said Thursday.
Police in Northern Ireland said Tuesday a second night of rioting has erupted in a Protestant district near Belfast.
Two suspected dissident republicans were arrested after authorities found a bomb in their car, Irish police said Saturday.
Three men arrested over dissident republican activity in Northern Ireland appeared in court Thursday and were remanded into custody, police said.
Police in Northern Ireland said Tuesday they have arrested four men in connection with dissident Republican activity.
Seven men and a woman arrested as part of an anti-terror sweep in Ireland have been released without charge, Irish police said Monday.
Two men arrested in Ireland under anti-terrorism laws have been charged and appeared in court Sunday, Irish police said.
Nine people have been arrested in the Republic of Ireland in connection with dissident activity by the Irish Republican Army, Irish police said Saturday.
The dissident republican group the Real IRA claimed responsibility Tuesday for a car bomb that exploded outside a bank in Londonderry, Northern Ireland, wounding two police officers and causing "substantial damage" to the bank, police said.
An Irish-related attack against Britain "is a strong possibility," security officials said, raising the terrorist threat level there from moderate to substantial.
Police officers injured in clashes in Belfast, Northern Ireland, reports journalist Peter Taggart.
The summer marching season has long been an annual flashpoint between Northern Ireland's Protestant and Catholic communities, despite the peace process which has brought stability to the province in recent years.
The British government's inquiry into the 1972 Bloody Sunday massacre is released. CNN's Phil Black reports.
I cut my teeth reporting from Derry during the early days of the "Troubles" in Northern Ireland. One thing I remember was the fear -- the fear of the British Army that the Irish people felt, and the fear felt by the British soldiers who came under regular attack by the Irish Republican Army and stone-throwing youths.
The British government Tuesday released a damning report into the 1972 Bloody Sunday massacre, placing blame overwhelmingly on the British soldiers on the ground in Northern Ireland that day.
Britain will release a report into 1972's Northern Ireland "Bloody Sunday" violence. CNN's Phil Black reports.
The results of the Saville Inquiry into the 1972 Bloody Sunday massacre in Northern Ireland were unveiled Tuesday. Here are some questions and answers about the inquiry, which is one of the longest in British legal history.
A car bomb exploded outside a British army base in Northern Ireland early Monday, injuring one person.
The Northern Ireland legislature ratified an agreement to "devolve," or bring under local control, the province's police forces.
Leaders from Britain, Ireland and Northern Ireland appeared together Friday to hail an agreement that saves the province's power-sharing government.
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton congratulates Northern Ireland on steps its taken towards a "full and lasting peace."
A bitter political standoff between the two largest political parties in Northern Ireland has been resolved, one of the parties, Sinn Fein, said.
British Prime Minister Gordon Brown gave Northern Ireland's two leading political parties until Friday morning to reach an agreement that would save the province's self-rule, he announced Wednesday.
Northern Ireland First Minister Peter Robinson will step down for six weeks in favor of a party colleague following a sex scandal involving his wife and amid allegations of irregular financial dealings.
Some former members of the Irish Republican Army -- "small in number" but "ruthless" -- are trying to undermine the agreement that ended 30 years of deadly violence in Northern Ireland, a former deputy director of the CIA said.
Two men face a court hearing in Northern Ireland on Wednesday after being charged with attempted murder and other counts in connection with what police called a foiled terrorist attack, police announced.
After an attempted bombing, CNN's Nic Robertson reports on the threat to peace in Northern Ireland.
A car carrying a 400-pound bomb was driven through barriers at the Policing Board headquarters in Belfast, Northern Ireland, police said Sunday.
A car containing explosives is left outside a police board in Northern Ireland. ITN's John Sparks reports
Authorities in Northern Ireland said Friday they were investigating an explosion in east Belfast that injured one woman.
Police in Northern Ireland were investigating Wednesday after "reckless criminal terrorists" planted a 600-pound bomb along a country road.
British Prime Minister Gordon Brown announced Sunday that his government will support IRA victims in seeking compensation from Libya, in a move conservatives called a "U-turn" from his earlier position.
Worldwide tributes for U.S. Senator Edward Kennedy, who has died after a long battle with brain cancer, poured in Wednesday, led by politicians hailing his role in securing a lasting peace in Northern Ireland.
The British government said Saturday was a "historic day" after two loyalist paramilitary groups announced they had completed the process of decommissioning their weapons.
Relatives of victims of Northern Ireland's deadliest single bombing on Monday won a landmark civil case against four men they blamed for the attack in Omagh that killed 29 people.
11 years after the bombing of a Northern Ireland town, four men have been found responsible. ITN's Kier Simmons reports.
Peace in Northern Ireland strained again by policeman's killing. CNN's Atika Shubert reports.
Police in Northern Ireland arrested a 19-year-old man Thursday morning in connection with the killing last month of two British soldiers, a police spokeswoman said.
A court refused bail Friday for the 41-year-old man charged with the murder of two British soldiers at a base in Northern Ireland.
A 41-year-old man was charged Thursday with murder and other charges in connection with the deaths of two British soldiers at a base in Massereene, Northern Ireland, earlier this month, police said.
A second man has been charged with murder over the killing of a policeman in Northern Ireland two weeks ago.
A 17-year-old suspect faces murder charges in the killing of a Northern Ireland policeman earlier this month, police said Monday.
Prayers in Northern Ireland after rioting between police and protesters. ITN's Keme Nzerem reports
Police arrested two more men in connection with the killing of policeman Stephen Carroll in Northern Ireland last week, bringing the total number of people in custody to seven, the Police Service of Northern Ireland announced Monday.
Authorities hunting the killer of a police officer in Northern Ireland last week say they have seized a gun and ammunition.
Rioting has flared near Belfast on Saturday after the arrests of three men in the killings of two soldiers in Northern Ireland last week, police said.
Thousands of people in Northern Ireland protested Wednesday against the killing of two soldiers and a policeman, reportedly by paramilitaries who want the province to leave the United Kingdom and become part of the Republic of Ireland.
Two men have been arrested in connection with the killing in Northern Ireland of a police officer, police announced Tuesday.
A police officer was slain in a shooting in Northern Ireland late Monday, just two days after two British troops were killed at a military base in the province, authorities said.
Two soldiers were killed and four people were wounded in a shooting at a Northern Ireland army base.
The British soldiers who were killed in Northern Ireland over the weekend had already packed their bags for Afghanistan and changed into desert uniforms when they were shot, a top British military officer said Monday.
The execution-style killing of two British soldiers and wounding of four other people in Northern Ireland was "an attempt at mass murder," police said Sunday.
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