Dublin footballer Michael Darragh Macauley has urged the Irish public to help struggling Syrian refugees following his recent visit to Iraq.

Tánaiste Simon Coveney has said the Irish Government secured the return of Lisa Smith and her daughter in light of the “dire conditions” the child faced in a Syrian camp.

A car bomb has killed at least 18 people in a Syrian town controlled by Turkey-backed opposition fighters, activists have said.

Syrian government forces have started deploying in areas close to the Turkish border in the north-east of the country, state media has reported.

A Syrian protester has died after he was run over by a Turkish military vehicle conducting a joint patrol with Russian troops in north-eastern Syria, a Kurdish spokesman and a Syrian war monitor said.

Thirteen civilians have been killed in a car bomb blast in a northern Syrian town along the border with Turkey.

The suicide of the Islamic State leader as US troops raided his hideout will offer Donald Trump only a brief respite from an investigation led by Democrats, says Steve Holland.

Assuming the US House of Representatives votes to impeach President Donald Trump, the fact remains that there are far fewer votes in the US Senate than will be needed to convict him and remove him from office. But Elizabeth Drew argues the willingness of the US Congress – including the Senate – to continue tolerating his dangerous conduct is now truly in question.

A Co Galway-based Syrian family which lost four close relatives, including three young children, in Turkish-led military attacks on north-east Syria this week, has expressed gratitude for the overwhelming community response.

US vice president Mike Pence has said the United States and Turkey have agreed to a ceasefire in Syria.

Russia has said it is working to prevent a conflict between advancing Turkish and Syrian government forces, as Turkey’s president defied growing pressure from Western allies for a ceasefire in northern Syria.

International medical humanitarian organisation Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) has suspended the majority of its activities and evacuate all its international staff from northeast Syria.

The camp is home to some 12,000 people, including nearly 1,000 foreign women with links to IS and their children.

International medical humanitarian organisation Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) say it is concerned for the fate of the civilian population in northeast Syria.

Why the US decision to withdraw troops from northern Syria is so dangerous.

Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan has announced that a Turkish military operation into Syria has started.

Turkey’s military will “shortly” cross into Syria together with allied Syrian rebel forces after President Donald Trump announced US troops would withdraw from the area.

After years of rising tensions between Turkey and the US over the situation in northern Syria, an unexpected rapprochement has pulled the two countries back from possible conflict.

The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet is 'ringing the alarm at the apparent international indifference' towards the rising death toll of Syrians in a series of airstrikes.

His comments follow those of Social Protection Minister Regina Doherty has called for Ms Smith and her two-year-old daughter to be brought home to Ireland.