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Burkina Faso has suffered from increasingly frequent and deadly attacks attributed to a number of jihadist groups

Gunmen kill six during mass in Burkina Faso

A priest and five churchgoers were shot dead during mass in an attack on a Catholic church in Dablo in northern Burkina Faso, security sources said.

World • 13 May 19

Funeral ribbons in Sri Lanka following the Easter Sunday terror attacks

15 killed during police operation in Sri Lanka

Police in Sri Lanka say 15 people, including six children, have died during a raid by Sri Lankan security forces as three cornered suicide bombers blew themselves up and others were shot dead.

World • 27 Apr 19

Hundreds were killed and injured in the suicide attacks

Sri Lanka admits 'major' lapse over deadly bombings

Sri Lanka's government has acknowledged "major" lapses over its failure to prevent the attacks on Easter Sunday that killed more than 350 people, despite prior intelligence warnings.

World • 24 Apr 19

SDF fighters celebrate after fighting IS militants near the village of Baghouz

Plenty of fight left in Syrian conflict

Deputy Foreign Editor Colm Ó Mongáin looks at the multi-layered conflict in Syria and examines what the future holds for the various fighting factions.

World • 11 Apr 19

It is understood that Lisa Smith travelled to Syria three years ago

Smith comments questioned by former military director

Comments made by an Irish woman who is being held in a Syrian refugee camp saying she just "ran with the crowd" have been questioned by a former deputy director military intelligence.

Ireland • 08 Apr 19

Lisa Smith served as a private in the Defence Forces before transferring to the Air Corps

Govt to 'find a way' to bring woman home from Syria

Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs Simon Coveney has said the Government will try to find a way to bring former Defence Forces member Lisa Smith and her child home from the Middle East.

Ireland • 25 Mar 19

The SDF has been battling to capture Baghouz at the Iraqi border for weeks

SDF declares Islamic State defeated in Syria

The so-called Islamic State has been defeated at its final shred of territory of Baghouz in Syria, the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces has said, announcing the end of its self-declared "caliphate" that once spanned a third of Iraq and Syria.

World • 23 Mar 19

Mr Trump made the comments on-board Air Force One

Trump's IS defeated statement disputed

US President Donald Trump appears to have prematurely claimed defeat against the Islamic State terror group's last bastion in Syria.

World • 22 Mar 19

Shamima Begum gave birth to the boy in a refugee camp in February

Baby of IS bride Shamima Begum has died - reports

There are unconfirmed reports that the baby son of Shamima Begum, a teenager who fled the UK to join Islamic State in Syria, is believed to have died.

World • 08 Mar 19

Human Rights Watch says around 1,500 children were detained in Iraq

Children jailed in Iraq for alleged links to IS - HRW

Iraqi authorities are prosecuting children suspected of ties to the so-called Islamic State group in a "deeply flawed" process, using flimsy accusations or confessions obtained through torture, Human Rights Watch said.

World • 06 Mar 19

Shamima Begum: 'They are making an example of me. I regret speaking to the media.

Shamima Begum says she regrets speaking to media

British teenager Shamima Begum, who joined the so-called Islamic State when she was 15, has said she regrets speaking to the media and wishes she had found a different way to contact her family.

World • 24 Feb 19

Shamima Begum left east London with two friends in 2015 to join ISIS

IS teen compares Manchester bomb to Syria airstrikes

A teenage girl who fled Britain to join the Islamic State group has compared the Manchester Arena bombing to military assaults on Syria.

World • 18 Feb 19

Wives of IS fighters walk under the supervision of a female fighter from the SDF in northeastern Syria

Kurds warn of 'time bomb' over captured jihadists

Kurdish-led authorities in north Syria said they would not free foreign detainees of the so-called Islamic State, but countries must take responsibility for them.

World • 18 Feb 19

Shamima Begum (R) ran away from London with two other schoolgirls in 2015

London schoolgirl who joined IS wants to return home

An east London schoolgirl who left Britain as a 15-year-old to join the so-called Islamic State group is now heavily pregnant and wants to come home.

World • 14 Feb 19

Alexandr Bekmirzaev said he moved to Ireland from Belarus in 1999

Irish citizen held in Syria says he is not IS fighter

A man detained by authorities in northern Syria who claims to be an Irish passport holder has said he was forced by so-called Islamic State to become an ambulance driver during the conflict.

World • 06 Feb 19

The United States wants other nations to repatriate their citizens detained by the SDF and prosecute them through domestic justice systems

US calls for repatriation of citizens detained by SDF

The US has called on Ireland and other countries to repatriate citizens being held by Kurdish-led forces fighting the Islamic State in Syria.

News • 04 Feb 19

FBI Director Christopher Wray, CIA Director Gina Haspel and the Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats

US intelligence chiefs contradict Trump's world view

US intelligence chiefs have contradicted some of President Donald Trump's most fundamental foreign policy claims.

US • 30 Jan 19

The four people were detained overnight in two Dublin garda stations

Four released without charge in terror finance probe

Four people arrested by gardaí investigating the terrorist financing of the Islamic State group have been released from custody.

Ireland • 23 Jan 19

Mike Pompeo believes Kurds could be part of the wider solution for Syria

Pompeo confident of good outcome for Turkey and Kurds

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has said he is confident that the Trump administration and Turkey can agree a way to protect the Kurdish fighters in Syria after US troops leave the country.

World • 13 Jan 19

Order for withdrawal of US troops from Syria signed

The order has been signed for the withdrawal of American troops from Syria, where they had been deployed to assist in the war against the Islamic State group, a US military spokesperson has said.

World • 24 Dec 18

Trump orders full withdrawal of US troops from Syria

The United States will withdraw all of its troops from Syria, a US official has said, after President Donald Trump claimed America has "defeated ISIS" in the war-ravaged country.

World • 19 Dec 18

Police said the men had been inspired by Islamic State rather than being directed by the militant group

Three held in Australia over plans for 'mass' attack

Australian police have arrested three men who were allegedly preparing to attack the public in Melbourne, less than two weeks after a man killed one person in Australia's second-largest city.

World • 20 Nov 18