This is either gonna be wildly successful or a complete disaster,” Austin Tice wrote in May 2012, on the eve of a dangerous journey to bear witness to history. “Here goes nothing.” Tice, a physically ...

An Islamic extremist found guilty of brutally killing his uncle has now been sentenced for planning to travel to Syria and ...

Ten months after rebels toppled the long-entrenched Assad regime, little-checked bloodshed has led many Syrians to abandon ...

Outside politics, Connolly is a passionate Irish speaker and a keen sportswoman who ran marathons and played badminton ...

Raised by a single father who had seven sons and seven daughters to feed in Galway to being swept to the steps of Áras an ...

Treasury Department accuses Colombian President Petro of enabling cocaine production surge while he calls sanctions a ...

A BBC documentary team follows a Syrian refugee's journey back to his homeland in search of his missing children and ...

Feature Some 2,100 women who joined the Islamic State group are detained in the Roj camp in northeastern Syria.

One of the scariest Algerian horror movies ever made, a Sudanese coming-of-age drama, an Iranian comedy about censorship, and ...

Catherine Connolly first entered local politics in 1999 as a Labour councillor in Galway city, becoming Mayor of Galway five years later. Soon, she will enter Áras an Uachtaráin as the 10th President ...

Syria has held some of the world's most successful fundraisers, raising as much as $500 million all up. But critics are now ...

Syrian authorities have seized about 11 million Captagon pills that entered the country from neighbouring Lebanon, in one of ...