The Saudi-led coalition was responsible for more than half the children killed and injured in Yemen's civil war last year, United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has said.

AS our political discourse frets judicial appointments, as it tosses and turns about Brexit, as it tries to keep up with revelations about more unearthed Garda accounts and wallows in angst provoked by the gender balance of Taoiseach Leo Varadkar’s cabinet, 20m people in four East African countries face starvation. 

Genocide is defined as “Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part”. 

While the West does arms deals, doctors in Jordan try to help the people of Yemen suffering from the constant bombardment, writes Norma Costello.

America’s global re-engagement should be welcomed, but not through a military lens. Diplomacy, not fighting, brings peace, says Carl Bildt.

Leopards have lost up to three-quarters of the territory over which they once roamed, a study has shown.

Kuwait yesterday identified the suicide bomber behind its worst militant attack as a young Saudi Arabian man. It said it had detained the driver of the vehicle that took him to a Shi’ite Muslim mosque where he killed 27 people.

The World Health Organisation says the spread of a mysterious virus from the Middle East to South Korea doesn’t merit being declared a global emergency despite infecting more than 160 people in the biggest outbreak outside the Arabian peninsula.

The World Health Organisation (WHO) has said the spread of a mysterious virus from the Middle East to South Korea does not merit being declared a global emergency, despite infecting more than 150 people in the biggest outbreak outside the Arabian peninsula.

Al Qaeda confirmed that Nasir al-Wahishi, its number two figure and leader of its powerful Yemeni affiliate, has been killed in a US strike, making it the harshest blow to the global militant network since the killing of Osama bin Laden.

Al Qaeda’s Yemen offshoot could bring down a transatlantic passenger plane at any time, a new book by a former CIA leader has warned.

France is to recruit thousands of extra police, spies and investigators to boost national security and intelligence, Prime Minister Manuel Valls announced, two weeks after 17 people were killed by Islamist militants.

The first edition of Charlie Hebdo published after last week’s deadly attack by Islamist gunmen sold out within minutes at newspaper kiosks around France, with readers queuing up for copies to support the satirical weekly.

Charlie Hebdo's defiant new issue sold out before dawn around Paris, with scuffles at kiosks over dwindling copies of the paper depicting the Prophet Mohammed.

A top leader of Yemen’s al-Qaida branch has claimed responsibility for last week’s attack on a Paris newspaper when two masked gunmen killed 12 people.

The tone, as well as the content of much of what passes for discussion on Israel, is too often a feral legitimisation of anti-Semitism, writes Gerard Howlin

Key members of the French government will meet today to decide on new measures aimed at thwarting a repeat of the attacks in Paris that saw a massacre of 12 people at a satirical newspaper, and a supermarket bloodbath that left four hostages dead.

Security forces dramatically ended a three-day terror spree around Paris, killing the two al Qaida-linked brothers who staged a murderous rampage at a satirical magazine, and an associate who seized a kosher supermarket to try to help them escape.

Al Qaida’s branch in Yemen tonight claimed it had directed the attack against the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo in Paris “as revenge for the honour” of Islam’s Prophet Mohammed.

A group of core al-Qaeda terrorists in Syria is planning “mass casualty attacks” against the West, the head of MI5 has warned.

The French president has urged citizens not to travel to areas where they risk being kidnapped, as he greeted a man returning after being held hostage for three years by al-Qaida’s North Africa branch.

US president Barack Obama has said that he authorised the attempt to rescue hostage Luke Somers in Yemen because the US had information that the British-born photojournalist’s life was in imminent danger.

A British-born photographer held hostage by Al Qaida in Yemen has been killed in a failed rescue attempt, his sister has said.

The mother and brother of a British-born photojournalist have appealed to his al-Qaida captors to spare him, saying he “was only trying to do good”.

Al-Qaida has threatened to murder a British-born photographer held hostage by the extremist Islamic group, according to a terrorist monitoring organisation.

Facebook has blood on its hands, according to the sister of Lee Rigby, after a report found the social network failed to take action over an online chat in which one of the killers vowed to slay a soldier.

Tightened security across UK airports will not be a "one-off temporary thing" Nick Clegg has warned, and Britain should be prepared for further measures.

A suspected US drone strike has targeted a car carrying al Qaida militants in southern Yemen, killing all five passengers, security officials said.

Muslims from across the world yesterday poured into a sprawling tent city in the Saudi desert before the start of the annual Islamic hajj pilgrimage.

French intelligence agency has arrested a woman over suspected links to Al Qaeda.

Suspected al-Qaida-linked gunmen have shot and killed a senior Yemen intelligence officer, officials said.

US soldier Bradley Manning has been jailed for 35 years for giving hundreds of thousands of military and diplomatic secrets to the WikiLeaks website.

The US has sharply escalated its drone war in Yemen, with military officials in the Arab country reporting 34 suspected al-Qaida militants killed in less than two weeks.

The terror threat emanating from al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) in Yemen has focused attention on the group’s cunning leader, Nasir al Wuhayshi.

Yemen says it has foiled plots by al Qaida to take over key cities and attack strategic ports and gas facilities amid heightened anti-terror tension in the country.

Suspected US drone strikes have killed seven al-Qaida militants in southern Yemen.

The US military has evacuated its non-essential government personnel from Yemen due to the high threat of attack by al Qaida which has caused temporary shutdowns of 19 American diplomatic posts across the Middle East and Africa

An intercepted secret message between al Qaida chief Ayman al-Zawahri and his deputy in Yemen about plans for a major terror attack was the trigger for the current shutdown of many US embassies.

US diplomatic posts in 19 cities in the Muslim world will be closed at least until the end of this week, amid online “chatter” about terror threats.

The al Qaeda threat that closed US embassies in the Middle East is the most serious in years and the “chatter” among suspected terrorists is reminiscent of what preceded the Sept 11 attacks, a US lawmaker who is briefed on intelligence said.

America’s security chiefs have met to review the threat of a terrorist attack that led to the weekend closure of 21 US embassies and consulates in the Muslim world and a global travel warning.

The United States issued an extraordinary global travel warning to Americans about the threat of an al-Qaida attack and closed down 21 embassies and consulates across the Muslim world for the weekend.

The United States issued a global travel alert today, citing an al Qaida threat that also caused the State Department to close its embassies on Sunday around the Muslim world.