Gardaí have a duty to protect jihadist supporter Lisa Smith and her family just like any other citizen, commissioner Drew Harris has said.

A Syrian protester has died after he was run over by a Turkish military vehicle conducting a joint patrol with Russian troops in north-eastern Syria, a Kurdish spokesman and a Syrian war monitor said.

The brutal ‘reign’ of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the leader of IS, self-proclaimed caliph, and the world’s most wanted man, has ended, write Ahmed Rasheed and Ahmed Aboulenein.

The current US administration’s staunch support of Israel could be an advantage in pressuring the beleaguered Palestinians to accept a deal, says French diplomat Gerard Araud.

Russia has said it is working to prevent a conflict between advancing Turkish and Syrian government forces, as Turkey’s president defied growing pressure from Western allies for a ceasefire in northern Syria.

Turkish ground forces have moved across the border to fight against Kurdish fighters in northeastern Syria, hours after Turkish jets and artillery pounded areas in Syria’s northern border

Why the US decision to withdraw troops from northern Syria is so dangerous.

Ireland is in discussions with an EU judicial body regarding the operation of a new EU register on terrorists.

After years of rising tensions between Turkey and the US over the situation in northern Syria, an unexpected rapprochement has pulled the two countries back from possible conflict.

The withdrawal of American troops late last year was premature, with fighting intensifying in Idlib province, say Charles A Kupchan and Sinan Ülgen

Foreign terrorist fighters have travelled from Ireland to North Africa, the EU police agency says.

Foreign terrorist fighters have travelled from Ireland to North Africa, the EU police agency says.

Efforts to repatriate so-called Isis brides could be fast-tracked, including former Defence Forces recruit Lisa Smith.

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.

A former female Defence Forces soldier arrested in Syria on suspicion of joining Islamic State (IS) also served in the Air Corps, where she helped work on the government jet.

The Irish passport-holder is a man in his mid 40s, who previously lived and worked as a security guard in Dublin.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has said his military "won't stop" efforts to oust Syrian Kurdish fighters from Syria's north, as the leaders of Turkey, Russia and Iran met for talks on the conflict.

Turkey's president has announced that a Turkish military helicopter was "downed" in northern Syria during Ankara's offensive on Syrian Kurdish militia in the region.

Police have detained 283 suspected Islamic State group militants in Turkey in the past 11 days, security officials said.

Analysis of samples taken from a deadly sarin gas attack in Syria earlier this month "bears the signature" of President Bashar Assad's government and shows it was responsible for the deadly assault, France's foreign minister has said.

LATEST: At least 100 people have been killed in the blast near evacuation buses outside Aleppo city, the Syrian opposition rescue service says.

The Syrian government and the opposition have begun a co-ordinated population swap of tens of thousands of people from four besieged towns.

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A suspected government chemical attack in an opposition-held town in northern Syria has killed dozens of people.

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US-backed forces in northern Syria have paused military operations near a dam held by the Islamic State group to allow engineers to fix any problems.

An airstrike on a mosque in a rebel-held area of northern Syria today killed at least 35 people, emergency officials and activists said.

Update 1.25pm: Turkish police are closing in on the gunman who killed 39 people at an Istanbul nightclub, a senior official said, insisting his possible whereabouts and contacts had been established.

Ten buses carrying civilians from two Shiite villages besieged by rebels in northern Syria are on their way to government-controlled areas, a Syrian activist group and a Lebanon-based TV station have said.

Turkish jets and artillery have struck US-backed Syrian Kurdish fighters in northern Syria, killing as many as 200 fighters, according to Turkey's state-run news agency.

A ceasefire brokered by the United States and Russia is set to begin in Syria at sunset today.

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Turkey's artillery has shelled Islamic State group targets across the border in Syria for the second consecutive day.

Air strikes by the US-led coalition have killed 28 civilians, including seven children, in a village in northern Syria held by the Islamic State group, according to activists.

A Save the Children-backed maternity hospital in an opposition-held area of northern Syria has been bombed, with casualties reported, the charity has said.

The Islamic State group has claimed responsibility for a twin bombing has struck a crowd in a predominantly Kurdish town in northern Syria, killing 44 people and wounding dozens more.

Amnesty International claims to have a video showing the beheading of a boy by an armed opposition group in northern Syria.

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The Government has announced an additional €5m in aid for people affected by the wars in Syria and Yemen.

Islamic State (IS) militants have abducted 300 cement workers and contractors in an area north-east of Damascus, Syrian state TV reported as fighting elsewhere in the country also worsened.

At least 22 militants have been killed in an air strike on an al Qaida-affiliated headquarters in northern Syria, a monitoring group has said.

Russian officials have rebuffed claims that warplanes from the country struck a hospital in northern Syria.

Close to 50 civilians have been killed and many more wounded in missile attacks on at least five medical facilities and two schools in northern Syria, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said.

A makeshift clinic supported by Doctors Without Borders has been destroyed by an air strike in northern Syria, a spokeswoman for an international aid agency has said.

George Soros says Russian President Vladimir Putin is out to to foster disintegration of the EU by flooding it with Syrian refugees fleeing his bombing campaign