Irish Republican Army (IRA) (Irish name: Oglaig...

Sinn Fein/IRA.
Home Base:
Northern Ireland, with a presence and operations throughout Ireland, Great Britain, and Europe.

Backing and Affiliations:

From the 1970s-1990s, the IRA received weapons and training from various international sources, most notably American sympathizers, Libya and the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO).

Connections have also been posited between the IRA and Marxist-leaning terrorist groups, especially at their most active in the 1970s. These include:


Basque separatist group ETA
Italian Red Brigades
German Baader-Meinhof Gang
Kurdish Workers Party (PKK).

Sinn Fein/IRA (ARE) Global TERRORISTS.

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