Syria

Military jets thundered overhead and troops deployed at strategic sites on Friday as supporters and opponents of deposed Egyptian president Mohamed M(...)

A suicide bomber blew himself up inside a Sunni mosque in central Iraq, killing at least 20 people in the middle of a sermon today.The explosion took (...)

Ireland was asked to provide Defence Force personnel for the Golan Heights to ensure the UN’s mission was seen as credible, Tánaiste Eamon Gilmore tol(...)

Kurdish fighters have seized control of a Syrian town on the border with Turkey and are battling Islamist rebel groups linked to al-Qaeda for control (...)

The West’s message to the disenfranchised people of Egypt roughly translates as: “Only when you elect a leader that suits our purposes will we apply t(...)

The decision to deploy an Irish Defence Forces mechanised infantry company to the Golan Heights as part of the United Nations Disengagement Observer F(...)

The number of people fleeing the conflict in Syria has escalated to an average of 6,000 a day during 2013 – a rate not seen since the genocide in Rwan(...)

Dublin’s decision to deploy a 114-strong mechanised infantry unit to the Golan buffer zone will boost at a crucial time the UN Disengagement Observer (...)

Dublin-born Samantha Power, President Obama’s nominee to be the next US ambassador to the United Nations, criticised the world body’s inaction over Sy(...)

Gunmen assassinated a well-known media defender of Syrian president Bashar al-Assad in Lebanon today, as Syria’s civil war steadily infects its smalle(...)