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Being a black family in Ballyfermot: ‘There was no hostility’
- People
- October 23, 2019, 06:00
When Abdullah Hersi arrived into Shannon Airport on April 4th, 1991, he planned to spend only a few hours in Ireland before continuing his journey to (...)

Kurds and US gave Turkey excuse it needed to invade
- Middle East
- October 12, 2019, 01:00
Syria’s hobbled and harried Kurds have provided Ankara with two pretexts for invading northeast Syria. Syria’s Kurds, numbering up to 2.5 million, ar(...)

Islamic State re-emerges as guerilla force in Syria and Iraq
- Middle East
- December 5, 2018, 12:19
Islamic State is carrying out a rising number of kidnappings, killings and bombings in Iraq and fighting fiercely in Syria as the extremist group retu(...)

US-backed Syrian forces resume battle against Islamic State
- Middle East
- May 1, 2018, 20:02
US-backed Syrian militias on Tuesday relaunched their offensive to seize the last territory controlled by the Islamic State terror group in the east (...)

Islamic State: collapse on the battlefield
- Editorial
- October 16, 2017, 00:05
A series of battles in Iraq and Syria in recent weeks herald the collapse and defeat of Islamic State and the “caliphate” it set up in 2014, which des(...)

Iraqi forces advance on Isis-held city of Tal Afar
- Middle East
- August 20, 2017, 08:03
Iraqi forces have pushed into the outskirts of one of the last Islamic State-held areas in the country – the northwestern city of Tal Afar. The opera(...)

After freedom, defiance and dreams of peace in east Mosul
- Middle East
- April 26, 2017, 16:11
The pounding of artillery pierces the return to life in east Mosul, months after the Islamic State terror group was expelled from one half of Iraq’s t(...)

Iraqi violinist returns to Mosul to play concert at shrine
- Middle East
- April 20, 2017, 16:33
A 28-year-old Iraqi violinist who was forced to go into hiding when the Islamic State terror group took control of his home city of Mosul has returned(...)

Yazidis who fled Isis live in limbo in Turkish refugee camps
- Middle East
- April 18, 2017, 01:00
Kochar Ismail Khalaf will never forget the day she heard the gunfire that told her Islamic State militants had arrived at the gates of her town in nor(...)

After Islamic State what comes next?
- Opinion
- April 13, 2017, 05:00
In the summer of 2014, the movement that became known as Islamic State took the world by surprise when it seized the Iraqi towns of Mosul, Tikrit and (...)