One family’s desperate attempt to forge a new life for themselves in fleeing the Syrian civil war has focused world attention on the refugees’ plight by means of one extraordinarily powerful image, writes Caroline O’Doherty.

I stand accused by Dr Frank Giles (Letters, Irish Examiner, July 2) of blaming the recent Tunisian mass murders on Western foreign policy and military interventions.

An explosion in the centre of one of Turkey’s most popular tourist resorts killed three people and injured at least 20 others today – less than a day after bomb attacks struck another tourist centre and an Istanbul neighbourhood.

MOVES by Turkey to create a military buffer zone between its borders and northern Iraq could lead to mayhem and bloodshed, the human rights group, Amnesty International, has warned.