All the main parties in Israel’s election are playing a game of hawkish one-upmanship that spells trouble for any hope for a peace in the divided country says Daoud Kuttab.

Female Islamic State militants are using children as human shields as the extremist group defends its last corner of Mosul's Old City against Iraqi troops, the military has said.

An Iraqi commander said his forces have taken Mosul's landmark al-Nuri Mosque compound that was destroyed by the Islamic State group last week.

It has been confirmed President Donald Trump asked his national security advisor to resign.

A 100-seater auditorium which will be used for training programmes by the Defence Forces has been opened by the army at Collins Barracks, Cork.

Boko Haram fighters are overrunning villages near the Nigerian town of Chibok, forcing hundreds of people to flee as they loot and burn in the area, local leaders have said.

President-elect Donald Trump is embarking on the massive undertaking of creating a new administration as a circus-like atmosphere unfolds around his building in Manhattan.

Iraqi government forces backed by the US-led coalition are "on the cusp" of taking Islamic State's (IS) last major stronghold in the country, Britain's Defence Secretary Michael Fallon has said.

At least 15 people have been killed in a suicide bomb attack on a wedding, an Iraqi security official has said.

Iraqi forces say they have secured the southern edge of the Islamic State group stronghold of Fallujah, two weeks after the launch of an operation to recapture the city.

Helen Mirren has always eased into typically male roles, and is still doing so at 70, she tells Helen Barlow

British and Chinese experts have watched as Russian military officials opened the black box of a Russian warplane downed by a Turkish fighter jet last month.

Cadet pillow fights like the bloody one that left 30 injured this summer will be banned and actions are being pursued against many of those involved, US Military Academy officials said.

On Friday 28th August at 1100pm in Collins Barracks Cork, General Officer Commanding 1 Brigade, Brigadier General Philip Brennan launched the Defence Forces Annual Veterans Day, which took place on Saturday 12th September 2015 in Collins Barracks Cork. 

Athenry highlights O’Brien five-timer

At Iraq’s request, the US began airstrikes in Tikrit in support of a stalled Iraqi ground offensive to retake the city from Islamic State fighters.

SABC contributing editor Vuyo Mvoko and the crew were robbed - and the whole thing was caught on camera.

A South African reporter was mugged in front of the camera, minutes before giving a news broadcast to the nation.

About 19 people were killed and 17 others injured in a suicide bombing in north-east Nigeria, a day before the president visited another town hit by violence.

William Kelly, 24, continued a growing family tradition in the protection of the State yesterday.

Two Burmese immigrant workers have confessed to killing two British tourists on a Thai holiday island last month, police said.

There is "inappropriate" use of training punishments in some parts of the Defence Forces, but morale generally is "very high", according to a top-level supervisory body.

Ireland will not unilaterally pull its troops out of the UN peacekeeping force in the Golan Heights, Defence Minister Simon Coveney has said.

Former servicemen and women of the Defence Forces will be remembered during a special ceremony in Co Kildare later.

A 24-year-old Japanese businessman who has 16 surrogate babies and an alleged desire to father hundreds more is under investigation.

At least 27 people were killed in a series of bombings across Baghdad today, including three over a span of less than 10 minutes.

Israel uncovered more than a dozen cross-border tunnels and engaged in gun battles with Hamas militants today on the second day of its open-ended ground operation in Gaza, as the Palestinian death toll there topped 300.

Iraq’s top Shi’ite cleric yesterday stepped up the pressure on politicians to agree on Iraq’s next prime minister, after incumbent Nouri al-Maliki lost the confidence of former allies in the fight against Sunni militants.

The head of Syria’s air defences has been killed in clashes near the capital, Damascus, one of a few high-ranking military officers to be killed in the country’s civil war.

The commander of a US army base where a soldier shot three colleagues says an "escalating argument" was the most likely cause of the attack.

A soldier opened fire on fellow service members at a US military base, killing three people and wounding 16 before committing suicide.

THEY goin’ down,” John Boudreaux recalls telling a colleague as he recorded the watery cataclysm unfolding before him with an iPhone camera.

The Defence Forces Chief of Staff is hoping to replace the Air Corps’s ageing fleet of Cessnas and purchase a third new ship for the Naval Service within the next five years.

Some army officers with young children may be forced to seek Family Income Supplement because they can’t afford to travel to new postings due to the disbanding of a brigade.

A 7.2-magnitude earthquake killed at least 32 people across the central Philippines today, toppling buildings and historic churches and sending terrified residents into deadly stampedes.

The United Nations has assured the Government that the safety of Irish peacekeepers is paramount on their upcoming mission to the Golan Heights.

Troops have funded and erected a memorial to Irish revolutionary leader Michael Collins at the barracks he set off from on the day he was ambushed.

The new Chief of Staff of the Defence Forces is Major General Conor O’Boyle.

Paralympic icon Oscar Pistorius was yesterday granted bail by a South African magistrate, pending a high-profile trial for killing his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp.

Oscar Pistorius will continue his fight for bail in the fourth day of a dramatic court hearing.

Syrian president Bashar al-Assad yesterday sent a senior diplomat to Moscow yesterday to discuss proposals by international envoy Lakhdar Brahimi to end the conflict convulsing his country, Syrian and Lebanese sources said.

The stress for soldiers in trying to expose the truth about how three of their colleagues died has finally been acknowledged by the army.

Israeli aircraft pummelled the rocket arsenals of Gaza militants and signalled a ground invasion might be growing near as troops, tanks and armoured personnel carriers massed near Israel’s southern border with the Palestinian territory.

It’s been claimed that due to a raft of cuts, the military can’t defend the security of the State to the same extent it did five years ago and would be under pressure to cope if the threat from subversives increases.

The chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff met with Iraqi officials today in the first such visit by America’s top general since troops withdrew from the country in December.

History will be made on Sunday when the first incumbent Taoiseach gives the oration at the 90th anniversary commemoration of General Michael Collins’ death.

Regime forces strafed rebel-held districts in Aleppo with helicopter gunships and pounded them with shelling on the third day of a pitched battle for Syria’s commercial capital.

The UK is “sticking to its course” in Afghanistan amid warnings British troops could be killed in reprisal attacks for the killing of 16 civilians by a US soldier, Downing Street said.