The CIA's release of documents seized during the 2011 raid that killed al Qaida leader Osama bin Laden has again raised questions about Iran's support of the extremist network leading up to the September 11 terror attacks.

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

Bahrain, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates have signalled they may allow some Qataris to stay in their countries amid a diplomatic rift with the Gulf nation.

Here’s a look inside the strange symbiosis between TV boss Jeff Zucker and the US president he helped create, with Jonathan Mahler.

As the Irish group formerly known as Lynched transition to their new moniker of Lankum, Ed Power looks at some of the other bands who’ve changed their title in mid stream

Twins whose bodies were found at the White Cliffs of Dover in England on New Year's Day had rucksacks containing the ashes of their dead parents, an inquest heard.

"It just seems so cruel and I think he would say the same."

Do you remember these Ryder Cup moments?

Doctors Without Borders has called for an independent and unprecedented fact-finding mission to investigate a US air strike on a hospital run by the medical aid group in Afghanistan that killed at least 22 people.

Hersh Tahir is speaking about the women who have been abducted and abused by IS but who have managed to escape.

As New York storytelling club, The Moth, comes to Ireland, Richard Fitzpatrick learns the secrets to spinning a great yarn.

Two decades have passed since Timothy McVeigh set off a truck bomb outside a federal office building in Oklahoma City, killing 168 people, but the memory remains vivid for Tonya McCabe, who sat on the jury that sentenced him to die.

A museum is to be built in Cork to recognise the achievements of Irish people who fought with foreign armies.

Fergus Finlay asks is it possible to be profound about free speech when we take it for granted.

The decision by the Irish government to recognize the state of Palestine is a welcome development, writes former president of Turkey Abdullah Gül.

One former soldier tells Bette Browne how his view on US involvement in Iraq has changed

Growth is an attribute often sought out by investors and entrepreneurs.

As much of the US debates the use of lethal injections against a backdrop of drug scarcity and botched executions, Tennessee has found an alternative — the electric chair.

President Bashar Assad says Syria will start submitting data on its chemical weapons stockpile a month after signing the convention banning such weapons.

THERE is a saying, too often used in interpreting international relations, that my enemy’s enemy is my friend. Sometimes it proves true, often it does not.

“IT’S as safe as Dawn dishwashing liquid.” That’s what Jamie Griffin says the BP man told her about the smelly, rainbow-streaked gunk coating the floor of the “floating hotel” where Griffin was feeding hundreds of cleanup workers during the BP oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico.

HE had one hour’s sleep the night before.

Medinah miracle worker Jose Maria Olazabal has heaped praise on his successor as Ryder Cup captain, Paul McGinley.

The gas plant at Amenas is giving up its secrets as Algerian special forces picking their way through the vast complex find dozens of bodies, some charred beyond recognition in the bloody end-game to one of the worst hostage crises in years.

The Taoiseach has called for the immediate release of a married 36-year-old Antrim man being held captive by Islamic militants in Algeria, as news of a successful escape bid by some of the hostages begins to come through.

The shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut are the latest in the United States’ long history of massacres at schools and colleges.

The shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut are just the latest in the US’s long history of massacres at schools and colleges.

LARRY Goodman’s purchase of the old Bank of Ireland headquarters on Baggot St in Dublin — announced last weekend — is a remarkable story.

The UN General Assembly is preparing to denounce Syria for unleashing tanks, artillery, helicopters and warplanes on the people of Aleppo and Damascus, and demand that the Assad regime keep its chemical and biological weapons warehoused and under strict control.

Injured US war veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan campaigns are presenting the US with an enormous disabilities bill, often claiming for up to 14 different injuries. Marilynn Marchione reports on a growing crisis

Pehmerga soldier Chnor Sabir Karim on duty in Sulaymaniyah.

A US SENATOR will introduce an immigration bill in Washington DC today which would allow up to 10,000 Irish a year to live in America on work visas — but not green cards.

Booker prize nominee Sebastian Barry tells Caroline O’Doherty how grateful he is that the protagonist told her story and guided him as he wrote it down.

His battling qualities are legendary, but the US Ryder Cup captain also has a reputation as a hothead and being thin-skinned. Simon Lewis wonders wether will he keep the latter emotions in check this weekend?

THE first half of the annual obsession everyone in the country claims they don’t watch kicked off last night with a new host, new love and, arguably, a new unofficial name.

A sniper who terrorised America during a three-week killing spree in 2002 is due to be executed today after an 11th-hour bid to block his death failed.

The remains of the first American lost in the Gulf War nearly two decades ago have been found in Iraq, the US military said today.

Worsening economic conditions have given US drivers and environmentalists slight cause for cheer, with fewer cars on the road as a result.

A MAJOR cost-cutting programme will see job cuts and increased charges at the country’s three main airports this year.