A shooting in a rural area of Northern Ireland on Wednesday left a woman and two children dead and a man seriously wounded, ...

Northern Ireland's largest British unionist party, the Democratic Unionist Party, has agreed to end a two-year boycott, potentially restoring power-sharing in the region.

Twenty years ago, the Provisional Irish Republican Army (PIRA) agreed to lay down their weapons and end its armed campaign to ...

LONDON — An Irish nationalist made history Saturday by becoming Northern Ireland’s first minister as the government returned to work after a two-year boycott by unionists. Sinn Fein Vice ...

Northern Ireland could see a return of a functioning government as soon as this weekend as the region's parties have been summoned for a sitting of the Northern Ireland Assembly on Saturday ...

Two people have died and another two were taken to hospital with serious injuries following a shooting this morning in a ...

The Northern Ireland Assembly isn't meeting. Executive Cabinet posts aren't filled. And while the 1998 agreement largely ended sectarian violence, there are new reminders about the peace's fragility.

BELFAST, Northern Ireland — Former U.S. Sen. George Mitchell, an architect of Northern Ireland’s historic 1998 peace accord, urged the territory’s feuding politicians Monday to revive their ...

Biden says he wants the Northern Ireland Assembly restored Biden's visit to Northern Ireland – his first stop in a four-day swing to the United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland – came as ...

Irish nationalists Sinn Fein followed up last year’s historic Northern Ireland Assembly victory by overtaking their unionist rivals by a wide margin in council elections on Saturday to become ...

Northern Ireland was established as a unionist, Protestant-majority part of the U.K. in 1921, following independence for the Republic of Ireland. “The days of second-class citizenship are long gone.