Lisa Smith and her daughter returned to Ireland from Turkey in December.

Louth woman, Lisa Smith, is to appear in court in Dublin later today.

Lisa Smith has had her period of detention extended to a third day.

There is speculation that Irish woman Lisa Smith could be returned to Ireland as early as next Tuesday.

Reuters is reporting two Irish citizens connected to ISIS are to be deported from Turkey in the coming days.

A specialist Defence Forces team has been sent to the Turkish-Syrian border as part of a potential bid to bring Irish Isis woman Lisa Smith and her two-year-old daughter back to this country.

Garda security services are conducting a criminal investigation in relation to possible terrorist offences by Irish woman Lisa Smith, who is detained in a camp in Syria for wives and children of Islamic State fighters.

Turkey’s military will “shortly” cross into Syria together with allied Syrian rebel forces after President Donald Trump announced US troops would withdraw from the area.

His comments follow those of Social Protection Minister Regina Doherty has called for Ms Smith and her two-year-old daughter to be brought home to Ireland.

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

So that’s Wednesday nearly wrapped up. Here’s some of the stories we published on irishexaminer.com today which we hope will help you make sense of it all this evening.

Speaking from Mali on Monday, where he is visiting Irish Defence Forces, Leo Varadkar, said: "I’ve only heard about that in the last short while."

A man who admitted sending funds to Islamic State was in contact with “medium to high level” operatives in the international terrorist group, has been jailed for two and a half years.

Iraqi forces in co-ordination with US-backed Syrian forces have captured five senior Islamic State leaders, the US-led coalition said.

The mother of a French police officer who was killed after he swapped himself for a hostage during an Islamic extremist attack on a supermarket says that she wasn't surprised by her son's courage.

France's top security official says a heroic officer who swapped himself for a hostage during an attack on a supermarket has died of his injuries.

It’s four months since Isis was driven from Raqqa, the Syrian city styled as the caliphate’s capital by the jihadi barbarians.

President Vladimir Putin has praised Russian soldiers for their actions in Syria, saying the Russian campaign there has demonstrated the might of the nation's revamped military to the world.

How very sad it is that the first-sentence reaction to Sunday’s mass murder at a concert in Las Vegas — at least 58 people killed, more than 500 injured — must contain the word “relief” but it seems unavoidable.

Islamic State have released what it claims is a recording of their leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.

Ireland is a member of the ‘Global Coalition to Defeat Isis’, a US Government terrorism report has said.

The US-led coalition has said Iraqi forces have retaken all of Mosul from the Islamic State group with Iraq’s prime minister declaring "total victory" in the fight against the Islamic State group.

Some 300 Islamic State fighters remain in the small patch of territory still controlled by the terror group in Mosul's Old City, a senior Iraqi commander has said.

Iraq’s Prime Minister has declared an end to the IS caliphate after Iraqi forces captured the compound of a landmark mosque in Mosul in which the Islamic State group originally announced their caliphate.

A Canadian sniper has broken a world record after reportedly shooting dead an Islamic State fighter in Iraq from more than two miles away.

There is never, not now or ever before, any justification for what took place in Manchester.

Iraqi forces have driven the militants from most of Mosul.

The US-led coalition's aircraft have destroyed the main water pipeline supplying the northern Syrian city of Raqqa, the de facto capital of the Islamic State (IS) group, according to activists.

Self-defence fighters have killed three girl suicide bombers targeting a bustling market in north-eastern Nigeria, civilian and military officials said.

Iraqi special forces have fought their way into the Mosul district for the first time in more than two years.

Officials in Washington know their hometown is a target for terrorists. But, despite the huge resources ploughed into preventing attacks, there are still issues with the city’s defences, writes Jeff Stein

Anyone who  believes that suicide bombings are the dying sting of Islamic State is mistaken writes Peter Van Buren

Not all countries in the Middle East aspire to a western-style democratic model and it is this misunderstanding of people’s needs that has led to the inexorable rise of IS, writes JP O’Malley.

Bernard-Henri Lévy warns that we are all in a state of intellectual emergency, left and right, and that we should unite to face up to Islamic extremism.

Raqia Hassan risked her life by openly criticising ISIS on Facebook. Her friends, family, and fellow activists remember her determination to tell the world the grim truth about life in Syria. 

A man accused of being the main recruiter for ISIS in Ireland is due back in court this morning.

A Connecticut high school student has been pulled out of classes and reported to police for substituting “Isis” for the “United States of America” during the pledge of allegiance.

The Court of Appeal has said it plans to deliver its decision on a challenge to the deportation of a man accused of being the main recruiter in Ireland for ISIS “as soon as possible”.

An Islamic State militant executed his mother in public in the Syrian city of Raqqa, because she had encouraged him to leave the group, reported the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.