# conflict - Wednesday 21 September, 2022
# Analysis
# Analysis
The security analyst looks at the Russian president’s latest move and the level of threat he now poses.
# conflict - Tuesday 13 September, 2022
# Conflict
# Conflict
The security analyst says the stakes are high now as Ukraine troops push back and all eyes are now on Moscow.
# conflict - Tuesday 16 August, 2022
# Nuclear Threat
# Nuclear Threat
The security analyst assesses Putin’s use of nuclear power as a weapon of war.
# conflict - Sunday 24 July, 2022
# Five Months On
# Five Months On
The security analyst says that having seized all of Luhansk, Putin will now turn his attention to Donetsk.
# conflict - Monday 4 July, 2022
# Search For Water
# Search For Water
In times of drought, farmers move their animals to look for water and pasture. This can create a rift with crop farmers.
# conflict - Saturday 28 May, 2022
# World Hunger Day
# World Hunger Day
Plan International Ireland’s Dualta Roughneen highlights the effects of food shortages on the most vulnerable in Africa.
# conflict - Tuesday 17 May, 2022
# Hunger
# Hunger
One in every five deaths around the world in children under age 5 is caused by severe acute malnutrition, according to a new report.
# conflict - Thursday 14 April, 2022
# Visit To Ukraine
# Visit To Ukraine
The Irish MEP documents a visit he and Senator Timmy Dooley made this week to Kyiv, Bucha and Irpin.
# conflict - Monday 4 April, 2022
# War Crime Probe
# War Crime Probe
Retired Colonel Colm Doyle, who served with the EU in Bosnia, looks at the recent horrors in Bucha and what can be done to bring perpetrators to justice.
# conflict - Saturday 19 March, 2022
# Neutral Ireland
# Neutral Ireland
The former ambassador says events in Ukraine bring to light the need for wider discussion around Ireland’s neutrality.
# conflict - Friday 18 March, 2022
# War In Ukraine
# War In Ukraine
Brittney Griner will stay in custody until at least 19 May, it was announced.
# Mad World
# Mad World
Sharon Byrne of Barnardos offers some helpful advice to parents trying to navigate discussing the war with their children.
# conflict - Thursday 17 March, 2022
# Ukraine
The picturesque West Ukrainian city has found itself suddenly at the epicentre of Ukraine’s refugee crisis. Many children arriving in the city have been evacuated from cities that have witnessed heavy Russian bombardments. 500 theatres, educational institutions and sporting centres are now hosting people displaced from across Ukraine.
# conflict - Sunday 13 March, 2022
# Putin And Assad
# Putin And Assad
The Irish MEP says Putin had a hand in atrocities in Syria too but the EU’s response there was muted at best.
# conflict - Saturday 12 March, 2022
# Opinion
# Opinion
As war rages in Ukraine, the question of Ireland’s place in the world as a neutral voice for peace is under the spotlight.
# conflict - Friday 11 March, 2022
# Cities Under Siege
# Cities Under Siege
The security analyst says based on the trajectory of this invasion, it’s now clear that the civilian population in Ukraine is a de facto target.
# conflict - Wednesday 9 March, 2022
# UKRAINE UNDER ATTACK
# UKRAINE UNDER ATTACK
Concern’s Kieran McConville meets the refugees telling their stories of heartbreak and survival.
# conflict - Tuesday 8 March, 2022
# Lviv
# Lviv
Thousands of Ukrainians displaced by Russian attacks have been arriving in Lviv and waiting days to board trains and buses travelling to Przemyśl.
# conflict - Monday 7 March, 2022
# War In Ukraine
# War In Ukraine
The Fianna Fáil senator visited Ukraine at the weekend with colleague Billy Kelleher and saw first-hand the suffering there.
# conflict - Saturday 5 March, 2022
# Coping With Conflict
# Coping With Conflict
Clinical Psychologist Dr Trudy Meehan has some practical ways to help us cling to hope in dark times.
# conflict - Wednesday 2 March, 2022
# Propaganda Machine
# Propaganda Machine
The Kremlin has exerted tight control over news and social media in an effort to control the information Russians receive about Ukraine.
# conflict - Tuesday 1 March, 2022
# Russia Ukraine
# Russia Ukraine
Ukraine today is a country attempting to forge its own political destiny in the shadow of a larger force, write Professor Hana Cervinkova and Dr John Paul Newman.
# Ukraine
# Ukraine
The security expert says the Russian leader has employed similar tactics in Grozny in Chechnya.
# conflict - Sunday 2 January, 2022
# Conflict
From The42
# Conflict
Nigeria previously suggested Watford were ‘baring fangs’ when the club objected to Emmanuel Dennis being named in their squad.
# conflict - Thursday 25 November, 2021
# Ethiopia
# Ethiopia
Ethiopia has expelled four Irish diplomats due to Ireland’s stance on the ongoing conflict in the country.
# conflict - Saturday 13 November, 2021
# Tigray Conflict
# Tigray Conflict
Eritrea claimed the new sanctions reflected a “misguided and hostile policy” by the US and were based on false allegations.
# conflict - Tuesday 6 July, 2021
# Poverty
# Poverty
Lebanon is facing “enormous challenges”, Minister Simon Coveney said.
# conflict - Wednesday 16 June, 2021
# Opinion
# Opinion
GOAL’s Yusuf Nural tells the stories of Syrian Refugees in Turkey ahead of the release of a moving new documentary and photo exhibition.
# conflict - Saturday 15 May, 2021
# Peace
# Peace
Violence has escalated between the two sides in recent weeks.
# conflict - Wednesday 12 May, 2021
# Conflict
25 people, including nine children, were killed in an Israeli air strike this morning. The UN rights office is "deeply concerned" about the escalation of violence. International leaders have called for a de-escalation on both sides.
# conflict - Friday 7 May, 2021
# Conflict
# Conflict
The Palestinian Red Crescent emergency service said 53 people were wounded.
# conflict - Monday 15 March, 2021
# A Decade Later
# A Decade Later
A popular uprising turned into a civil war with world powers backing different sides.
# conflict - Sunday 14 March, 2021
# Human Rights
# Human Rights
Meath man Derek O’Rourke is GOAL’s Middle East Security Advisor. He outlines the challenges faced by NGOs as they navigate Syrian regions devastated by war.
# conflict - Saturday 26 December, 2020
# Conflict
# Conflict
A spokesperson for the UN Secretary-General said that attacks againt peacekeepers “may constitute a war crime”.
# conflict - Saturday 19 December, 2020
# Conflict
# Conflict
Soldiers were deployed in the eastern Al-Fashaqa border region, the site of sporadic clashes.
# conflict - Sunday 15 November, 2020
# Peace Deal
# Peace Deal
The leader of an opposition party in Armenia was arrested yesterday after being summoned to the headquarters of the country’s security forces.
# conflict - Monday 9 November, 2020
# Azerbaijan
# Azerbaijan
Fighting between Azerbaijan and Armenia has been ongoing for six weeks in the context Nagorno-Karabkh region.
# conflict - Saturday 24 October, 2020
# Conflict
# Conflict
Rockets have struck residential areas in Nagorono-Karabakh as Armenia and Azerbaijan continue their conflict over the territory.
# conflict - Saturday 17 October, 2020
# Conflict
# Conflict
The incident marks an escalation of the countries’ conflict over Nagorno-Karabakh.
# conflict - Saturday 10 October, 2020
# Nagorno Karabakh
# Nagorno Karabakh
Mediation talks leading to the ceasefire were facilitated by Russia.
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