Intelligence gathered by foreign security services on returned Islamic State supporter Lisa Smith is a key part of evidence being put to the Dundalk woman in questioning.

French president Emmanuel Macron has said a midair collision between two helicopters killed 13 French soldiers in Mali.

For Islamic extremists, African gold mines are a treasure trove both of explosives and funds to recruit new members and buy arms, writes David Lewis and Ryan McNeill

To ensure his re-election to the White House, Donald Trump must retain the backing of the white evangelicals who put him there in the first place, writes Bette Browne

They have continued to bomb, kill, and maim, even as they have met with the Afghan government to discuss an end to violence, says Shashi Tharoor.

The acclaimed Irish writer’s first novel, ‘The Country Girls’, from 1960, was banned and burned in Ireland, but she has lived undaunted ever since and is still writing

A former mayor of Kilkenny has said that opposition to the planned mosque and Islamic centre in the city was not an issue of religion, but one of traffic management.

The Islamic community wanted to build on a site at the Hebron Industrial Estate on the edge of Kilkenny city.

Six people including a pastor have been killed in an attack on a Christian church in northern Burkina Faso.

Islamists in Sudan long allied with ousted president Omar al-Bashir's regime have called for a rally to support military-backed Islamic rule in the face of alleged attempts by protesters to abolish it.

Former justice minister Dermot Ahern has said he is surprised that the radicalisation of Irish Islamic State bride Lisa Smith did not ring alarm bells, given that she began the process while serving in the army.

The decision by the Government to make efforts to repatriate the Irish Islamic State bride Lisa Smith is bound to be contentious and one that will not sit comfortably with many of her fellow citizens.

Lisa Smith, the Irish woman who went to Syria is 2015 and married an ISIS fighter, has told a US news report that she wants to come home to Ireland.

Irish soldiers could be deployed in war-torn Syria before the end of the year, even though the country has become the centre of a new Cold War-era battle between Russia, the US, Britain, France, and their proxy allies.

Four decades ago Iran’s then-leader, the western-orientated Mohammad Reza Pahlavi — the Shah of Iran, the self-styled King of Kings — began the last year of his corrupt monarchy.

Police have detained 230 boys and girls at separate parties in the Iranian capital Tehran in which alcohol was involved, according to reports.

A university student told a police officer he forgot to burn a copy of a terrorism manual because he got "absolutely plastered" and "smoked a lot" of cannabis, a court in England has heard.

The EU is caught between Brexit Britain and a disenchanted group of Middle Europeans whose political sentiment is antithetical to the liberal ideals of the EU, says John Lloyd.

An Islamic faith school's policy of segregating boys from girls is unlawful sex discrimination, leading judges in England have ruled.

Latest: A man who stabbed two women to death at Marseille's main railway station had been arrested and released the day before the attack, French officials have said.

The death toll has risen to more than 80 after an Islamic State-claimed attack in southern Iraq targeting a restaurant frequented by Shiite Muslim pilgrims, Iraqi officials said.

More than 1,300 foreign women and children, the families of Islamic State fighters, are being held at a camp for displaced people in northern Iraq, Iraqi officials said.

A pig's head has been left at the door of an Islamic centre in the North. Graffiti was also painted on the building in what police are treating as a hate crime.

Iraqi intelligence officials have foiled an attempt by Islamic State to attack revered Shiite shrines and the sect's spiritual leader.

Robert Mulhern meets the Limerick man who joined the Peshmerga to fight in the battle against the forces of the so-called Islamic State

There are 63,400 practising Muslims living in Ireland and approximately 50 mosques and prayer centres within the State, with five Muslim clergymen or qualified imams.

Naval service ships operating in the Mediterranean Sea could soon be adopting a more robust role in the fight against Islamic terrorists and people-smugglers.

A man jailed for five years for threatening to kill French flatmates in Cork told them that terrorist attacks in France and Brussels were excellent things.

IF a suicide bomber launched an attack at the Guns N’ Roses concert in Slane Castle tonight, or say, at one of the concerts planned for the new Páirc Uí Chaoimh, how would our emergency services cope? 

The dollar index touched its lowest point since early November, hurt by weaker than expected US housing data and concerns after political turmoil once more hit Washington.

Two police officers have been shot and wounded on the French island of Reunion during the arrest of a man suspected of links to radical Islam.

THE establishment of modern Turkey and the establishment of this State occurred at the same time. 

Latest: The injuries suffered by an Irish person in the Westminster terror attack are not life threatening, the Government has been told.

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France is threatened by two "totalitarianisms" in the form of economic globalisation and Islamic fundamentalism, far-right leader and presidential candidate Marine Le Pen told her party conference.

World Hijab Day is a good time to acknowledge that states such as Saudi Arabia peddle an extreme form of the religion, says TP O’Mahony.

Exiled Gambian ruler Yahya Jammeh has been accused of stealing millions of euro in his final weeks in power, and shipping out luxury vehicles by cargo plane.

If the EU had shown ‘political maturity’ more than a decade ago, we would have a bond with the Islamic world which would help hobble Islamic extremism, writes Victoria White

Francois Fillon has won France's first-ever conservative presidential primary after promising drastic free-market reforms and a crackdown on immigration and Islamic extremism.

Police have launched a major search for a man armed with a shotgun and a knife who stabbed an elderly woman to death at a retirement home for Catholic missionaries in southern France.

Donald Trump has been urged to commit to strengthening relations with the European Union, including on Russia's actions in the Ukraine and the future of the troubled US-EU trade deal.

Vittorio Bufacchi argues it is the duty of everyone to pay its share if we want to live in a fair society and multinationals must play by the same rules as all citizens.

The UN human rights office has condemned local bans in France on burkini swimwear as "a grave and illegal breach of fundamental freedoms" and a "stupid reaction" to recent extremist attacks.

Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau and other commanders of the Islamic extremist movement have been killed by an air strike, according to Nigeria's military.

Iraq has executed 36 men convicted of taking part in the IS group’s massacre of hundreds of soldiers in 2014, officials said.

Thais and tourists have headed warily into the main part of a big holiday weekend as authorities hunted for suspects and a motive behind a series of blasts that struck resort towns across the south in some of the worst violence since a military coup two years ago.

The American military and industrial complex needs a new enemy to justify its massive budget and Vladimir Putin is the right person at the right time, argues Peter Van Buren.