Paramilitary groups were active on both sides of Northern Ireland's political divide, including the IRA, the UDA, the UVF and the INLA. Since the peace process began, several paramilitary splinter ...

It says the UDA leadership has “limited control” over ... of the International Commission on Decommissioning that the IRA had ...

Paramilitary groups such as the UDA and the UVF killed more than 900 people over the course of the Troubles in Northern Ireland. The IRA extends its bombing campaign to London with the Old Bailey ...

The UDA had remained a legal organisation until it ... set out the position with all the different groups, following the IRA murder of Belfast man Kevin McGuigan. At that time, the Stormont ...

In August, the secretary of state banned the UDA after an upsurge of killings. The following month the Provisional IRA carried out a bloody purge of the breakaway. The year ended with a ...