The UN’s top human rights body is holding an urgent session on spiralling violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo, where ...

IRELAND’S military stands at just 7,500 soldiers – 2,000 troops below the required strength to protect the country. Decades of under investment, poor pay and conditions have resulted in our ...

The Duke and Duchess of Edinburgh met the two per cent of young Nepalis who passed the gruelling selection process to join ...

Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.) joins 'Squawk Box' to discuss President Trump's third week back in office, DOGE and Elon Musk's ...

The families of the IRA men killed in Clonoe in February 1992 are "overwhelmed" with the coroner's verdict that the lethal ...

In-form Scotland and their mercurial out-half Finn Russell are a big threat to Ireland's 2025 Six Nations title chances, ...

Nearly 3,000 people were killed in Goma last week, according to early estimates provided by the UN peacekeeping operation in ...

Members of a specialist British military unit who shot dead four IRA men in an ambush in Co Tyrone in 1992 used lethal force ...

Hamas has accused Israel of breaching their ceasefire accord and it delayed announcing the names of three more Israeli ...

Israeli Defence Minister Israel Katz ordered the army on Thursday to prepare a plan to allow the "voluntary departure" of ...

After Trump unveiled a plan to “take over” Gaza and relocate nearly 2 million Palestinians to neighboring countries, two mayors in the region who had stumped for Trump have gone silent. And some ...

The UN Human Rights Monitoring Mission has recorded an “alarming rise” in reported executions of Ukrainian soldiers captured ... Join the Irish Independent WhatsApp channel Stay up to date ...