It's October 2003. Saddam Hussein’s regime has fallen. For six months, Baghdad has been occupied by American forces.

GP Maitiu Ó Tuathail travels across Ireland to be the first point of contact for newly arrived refugees. He hears stories of rape and torture, writes Darragh Bermingham

Climate change is increasing global hunger, with some countries worse off today than a decade ago, a new study shows.

All additional money collected from carbon taxes is to be ring-fenced for climate action and a just transition, the Taoiseach is due to tell the UN Climate Summit.

Mark English spoke out against a lack of transparency from athletics’ world governing body (IAAF) yesterday after the 26-year-old was denied a place at this year’s World Championships in Doha.

Forced displacement is a global challenge.

Izz Alkarajeh emerged from direct provision to open one of Cork’s most exciting new restaurants – Izz Cafe. Joe McNamee on our new migrant chefs, their respective cuisines and the impact on our native dishes

When John Alcock and Arthur Whitten Brown crash-landed into a Connemara bog almost a century ago, it was a Cork-born journalist who broke the news of their non-stop transatlantic flight to the rest of the world.

As Israeli politics shift rightward, It is time for a paradigm shift in how we think about the Middle East, writes Richard N Haass.

A new initiative has been launched in Dublin by Plan International and UNESCO Chair IT Tralee to help children with disabiliteis to join in everyday activities including playing sport.

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

Even a crash-out Brexit will be a children’s birthday party compared with what has been, and is being, suffered by the Palestinian people, writes Victoria White.

In the third of a four-part series looking at finalists for the Cork Company of the Year Awards 2019, Padraig Hoare casts an eye over those in the Large category.

Donncha O’Callaghan is hoping he can boost the work of Unicef Ireland by donating all the monies raised by a Testimonial Gala Ball in his honour in November to the organisation he has long served as an ambassador.

Trump has created another Charlottesville moment with how he apportions blame — and this time it was on a world stage, writes Eli Lake.

The Court of Appeal has upheld a decision allowing the State deport to Jordan in 2016 a man allegedly involved with Islamic terrorists.

When Abraham Phelan opened his restaurant in the Dublin suburb of Rathmines he called it Little Jerusalem, writes Victoria White

Arab foreign ministers have demanded that the United States rescind Donald Trump's decision to recognise Jerusalem as Israel's capital, calling it a "grave" development that puts Washington on the same side as "occupation" and the violation of international law.

The Palestinian president has warned that US recognition of Jerusalem as Israel's capital would jeopardise the White House's nascent Mideast peace efforts.

RTÉ News has appointed multinedia journalist Brian O'Donovan, as the station's Washington correspondent, to replace Caitriona Perry.

UK Prime Minister Theresa May has declined to set a target for when half her Cabinet ministers will be women.

Iraqi poet, Adnan al-Sayegh (born in 1955) has paid a heavy price for his poetry which denounces the devastation of wars and the horrors of dictatorship, writes Colette Sheridan

Conor Nash is still just 19 but stands six-foot-five and weighs in at 14 and-a-half stone, just the sort of dynamic young player Meath football has been crying out for.

Only 25% of sheep farmers are meeting their lamb survival targets, according to a study of 100 sheep farmers in Co Galway.

Seven people were arrested and accused of being gay and promoting homosexuality in Egypt even though there is no law banning the practices.

Israel has taken down metal detectors from entrances to a holy Jerusalem shrine to defuse a crisis that angered the Muslim world and triggered some of the worst clashes in years.

Tributes have been paid online to a young Shamrock Rovers player after he was killed in a car accident on Thursday, writes Ciara Phelan.

An open-ended ceasefire in southern Syria brokered by the United States and Russia has come into effect.

US president Donald Trump has described his lengthy head-to-head encounter with Russian president Vladimir Putin as a "tremendous meeting".

Russian bombers have targeted the Islamic State group in Syria with cruise missiles, the military said.

The US has deployed a truck-mounted missile system into Syria, an official confirmed.

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

Palestinian flag flying atop our municipal buildings is about attaining the summit, in a hierarchy of victims, says Gerard Howlin.

US president Donald Trump has cast the elusive pursuit of peace between Israelis and Palestinians as the "ultimate deal" as he continues his tour of the Middle East.

The US missile attack caused heavy damage to one of Syria's biggest and most strategic air bases - but the impact on President Bashar Assad's military capabilities is limited.

2016 was a year of commemorations, writes Josephine Fenton, but one was overlooked, at least in Ireland, if not in the Middle East: the hundredth anniversary of the Sykes-Picot agreement signed on May 16, 1916.

International donors have pledged $6bn to help conflict-torn Syria this year, a senior European Union official has confirmed.

Concerns have been raised at the number of people from conflict zones, including Syria and Iraq, being refused family reunification visas or entry into Ireland.

A federal judge has blocked US President Donald Trump's administration from enforcing his new travel ban against a Syrian family looking to escape fighting in their native land by fleeing to Wisconsin.

The Government has pledged another €3m to support Syrian refugees who have fled the civil war to Jordan and Lebanon.

Syrian refugees want neither handouts nor pity but the chance to give back to their new home, says Joyce Fegan