On the campaign trail in Texas, Joyce Fegan finds two young, undocumented Mexicans helping others and hoping to create a better life in Trump’s America.

Evolutionary psychology, which stresses competition for females, can add another dimension to our understanding of anti-immigrant mood, says Daniel Gros.

A 30% surge in asylum seeker applications here last year has resulted in the State moving to open “as a matter of urgency” a new direct provision centre in Lisdoonvarna in north Clare.

The number of people seeking international protection in Europe in 2017 dropped by almost half compared to the year before, with most applicants coming from Syria, the European Union's asylum agency said.

Nearly 7,000 Syrians will be allowed to remain in the United States for another 18 months, the Trump administration has said, but no more Syrian citizens will be able to apply for the special protection programme.

Brian Maguire returned from Aleppo intent on painting the reality of what he’d seen in the Syrian city, writes Alan O’Riordan.

An evacuation of critically ill Syrians trapped in a rebel-held suburb near the capital Damascus is under way.

Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump have agreed to defeat the Islamic State group in Syria, the Kremlin said.

Pottery is in ceramic artist Jim Turner’s blood. The West Cork-based artist, who is

One of the lessons from the 2015 refugee crisis is that the EU will need to develop a far stronger common foreign and security policy, says Carl Bildt

Syrians are always up for a party. They’re like us at our best. They are a natural fit with Irish people, writes Victoria White

Restrictions on reuniting refugees with loved ones are “creating mentally-ill children of the future”, senators have warned.

Latest: The US has seen chemical weapons activity at a Syrian air base used for a sarin gas attack in April, the Pentagon said.

The White House has issued a warning to Bashar Assad as it claimed "potential" evidence showed Syria was preparing for another chemical weapons attack.

Two Syrians have been detained in Sicily on suspicion of terrorism as G7 leaders were meeting on the island, the Italian news agency ANSA says.

An attack by Islamic State on an area held by the Syrian government in southern Aleppo province has been repulsed by troops and allied fighters, the military reports.

The evacuation of more than 3,000 Syrians from four areas as part of a population transfer has been postponed a day after a deadly blast killed more than 120 people, many of them government supporters.

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

Locals in Waterford are setting up a programme of events to help Syrian families feel part of Irish society. 

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

Politicians from around the world were quick to react on Twitter to news of the US strikes on Syria.

Evidence suggests Assad was behind this week’s chemical weapons attack. Leaders are saying it is a redline issue but Western powers are at a loss to respond, says Peter Apps

More than 40 donors have pledged nearly £5 billion to help people in need in 2017 amid the Syrian crisis, the United Nations humanitarian chief says.

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Desperate Syrians fleeing the devastating war in their country are finding refuge in sub-Saharan Africa.

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

The Syrian government committed "slow-motion slaughter" of an unknown number of Syrians trapped in besieged and hard-to-reach areas by wilfully denying them food and healthcare, according to a new report from a civil rights group.

In 2015, €9.7bn of the development assistance budget was used to deal with the influx of people into the EU, instead of paying for projects in those countries from where asylum-seekers had fled, says Jorge Moreira da Silva.

Every Sunday, the gymnasium along Beirut’s airport highway echoes with the shouting and laughter of dozens of Syrian children enjoying a rare escape from a grim and confined life in exile.

A Syrian family tells Joyce Fegan all they have endured since fleeing Aleppo after Islamic State burnt their house down. They have slept rough in Turkey and lost a sister on a raft to Greece before arriving here in December.

The absurdity of the perceived threat posed by refugees and immigrants from ‘banned’ countries is about politics not US security, writes Tania Karas.            

US President Donald Trump’s order temporarily banning refugees and immigrants from seven mostly Muslim countries is playing well in Trump Country, those places that propelled him to the White House.

The resettlement of families fleeing war in Syria has stirred up disagreement in Ballaghaderreen, Co Roscommon.

A deal to evacuate trapped civilians and fighters in war-ravaged east Aleppo and two Syrian villages has been thrown into doubt after assailants torched six buses assigned to the operation.

A Syrian man suspected of planning a bomb attack was checked by a trainee guard 15 minutes before he was found dead in a German jail cell, authorities say.

A Syrian man arrested in Germany over a suspected Islamic extremist bomb plot has killed himself in a prison cell in Leipzig, according to Saxony's state Justice Ministry.

Three people have been arrested after German police found several hundred grams of explosives in an apartment they raided in connection with a Syrian man suspected of planning a bomb attack in the eastern city of Chemnitz.

German police are looking for a Syrian suspected to have been planning a bombing after a raid on the apartment, where he was thought to be, turned up nothing.

Syrian President Bashar Assad says his government is determined to "reclaim every area from the terrorists, and to rebuild" the country.