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A year ago, the figure was around 230,000. One million Syrian children are now living as refugees.
The team will head to The Hague to assess the evidence gathered during their probe.
Irish citizens in Lebanon “may wish to reconsider their need to remain in the country at this time”.
A total of 115 members of the Irish Defence Forces will join the United Nation’s mission in the Golan Heights next month.
The attacks happened in the city of Tripoli. It’s reported a number of children are among the dead.
Lebanese policemen stand guard outside a hotel where the rest of the Turkish Airlines crew are staying.
Some EU Member States want to blacklist Hezbollah as a terrorist organisation.
The Dáil has to approve a decision by the Cabinet and Minister Alan Shatter to send members of the Defence Forces to a UN mission in the Golan Heights.
The blast comes amid spiralling tension in Lebanon over the civil war raging in neighbouring Syria.
Fierce clashes continued for a second day between the army and gunmen loyal to a radical Sunni cleric in the Lebanon.
Three match officials have been jailed after pleading guilty to accepting free sex from a gambling-linked syndicate.
There will also be a meeting of the EU’s 27 foreign ministers in Brussels.
The Minister for Defence also revealed that the UN has requested that Irish observers be sent to Syria.
At least 70,000 people have been killed in Syria so far, including 122 people killed in violence yesterday.
“This tragedy has to be stopped,” says UN High Commissioner for Refugees António Guterres. The refugees arrive “traumatised, without possessions and having lost members of their families”.
The humanitarian body says relief agencies are struggling to cope with the volume of refugees, who number 5,000 a day.
Oxfam Ireland is warning that living conditions in refugee camps are worsening as a result of the cold weather.
Austria looks set to remain one of the few European countries with compulsory military service as voters go to the polls in a referendum being held today.
Documents from 1982 capture the immediate aftermath of the moment when Michael McAleavey shot dead three of his colleagues at Tibnin Bridge in South Lebanon.
Reporters Without Borders has named the deadliest countries for journalists across the world this year.
In his new book, Tom Clonan details the ups and downs of his tour of peacekeeping duty in Lebanon in the 1990s and how ‘Mary Robinson wears no knickers’ becomes a common greeting…
Cork boss Conor Counihan will have to plan without his long-serving goalkeeper for the opening months of next year.
Police used tear gas to repel protestors who stormed the headquarters of the Lebanese Prime Minister following the funeral of the security chief killed in a car bomb on Friday.
Local media are reporting that at least two people have been killed and 15 injured in the explosion.
Irish soldiers are undergoing the final phases of an intensive training exercise in preparation for their deployment to Lebanon.
The State news agency SANA also says someone had hacked its Facebook account.
Fighting continues to spill over borders, however, with violence reported near Jordan today.
Passengers rounded up around €17,000 but the airline found another way to pay for the fuel on the emergency stopover in Damascus.
Despite the UN’s extension of its observation mission, violence continues to escalate across the country.
Iraq says that all of its borders with Syria have been seized.
John McCarthy, released from a Beirut cell 21 years ago, has written a new book. He spoke to TheJournal.ie about captivity, celebrity… and Martin McGuinness.
A number of clashes between pro- and anti-Syrian groups in the north of the country have broken out in recent weeks with fears the conflict could escalate sectarian tensions in volatile Lebanon.
There were happy scenes as the soldiers were welcomed at Dublin Airport today.
A replacement battalion has already been deployed to continue Ireland’s involvement in the UNIFIL operation.
Five people were reportedly killed in Syria today. Meanwhile, pro- and anti-Assad groups clashed in northern Lebanon.
Mohammad El-Akkarim won’t have many better games, and nor will anyone else for that matter.
The state-run SANA news agency carries comments from a minister who says the anti-government uprising is defeated.
However, a senior UN official has accused Bashar al-Assad’s forces of deliberately torturing and jailing hundreds of children.
Half a million euro will be made available to humanitarian agencies working in Syria.