Gunmen struck at a British army base in one of Northern Ireland’s worst attacks since a 1998 peace deal on Saturday, killing two soldiers.
The Irish Republican Army’s (IRA) violent campaign in Northern Ireland is over, British Prime Minister Tony Blair said on Wednesday, following a report into paramilitary activity that raised hopes of reviving self-rule. Northern Ireland’s ceasefire watchdog, the Independent Monitoring Commission, said in the report that it believed the IRA was no longer engaged in terrorism.