Part of a series of articles exploring the role of the left in the great political upheaval in Northern Ireland in 1968-69, written in response to John McAnulty’s polemic ( Solidarity 717) In January ...

(CNN) — People around the world this weekend will be seeking out their local Irish pubs to join in the revelry associated with Ireland’s national holiday, Saint Patrick’s Day, on March 17.

Civil war erupted in South Sudan in late 2013 when a rift between Kiir and Machar escalated into fighting along ethnic lines. Kiir, an ethnic Dinka, accused a group of soldiers loyal to Machar ...

Syria's 14-year civil war has undergone yet another rapid series of shifts, with violence sweeping the west coast homeland of deposed President Bashar al-Assad's minority Alawite Muslim sect and ...

Civil war erupted in South Sudan in late 2013 when a rift between Kiir and Machar escalated into fighting along ethnic lines. Kiir, an ethnic Dinka, accused a group of soldiers loyal to Machar, an ...

Trump has framed Ukraine and President Volodymyr Zelenskyy as the main impediment to peace, falsely blaming Ukraine for starting the war, seeking to undermine Zelenskyy's legitimacy and publicly ...

An ambush on a Syrian security patrol by gunmen loyal to ousted leader Bashar Assad escalated into clashes that a war monitor estimates have killed more than 1,000 people over four days.

Trudeau accuses Trump of trying to ‘annex’ Canada and appease PutinOpens in new window ] Carney has Irish roots. A grandparent emigrated to Canada from Mayo about a century ago. Two other ...

Khalid El-Astal (31), who lives in Dún Laoghaire, believes his family are among the last Irish citizens left in the war-torn Strip. Yet, despite their Irish passports, they have been unable to leave.

The BBC accompanies the civil defence group as they respond to violence in Syria's coastal region. Many belong to former President Bashar al-Assad's sect, which was targeted in mass killings.

‘Our own time demands an unblinking encounter with civil war,’ writes David Armitage, a professor of history at Harvard. ‘The three hundred years between 1648 and 1945 constituted an era of war ...