Lebanon

Catherine Flanagan with her son David Nahle who has been in Lebanon since August 2022

DUP MP asks Starmer to help get Northern Irish toddler returned from Lebanon

Private Sean Rooney, from Newtowncunningham, Co Donegal, was killed when a convoy of Irish troops serving with a UN peacekeeping force was ambushed and fired upon in December 2022.

Fatally injured soldier tried to drive comrades to safety

The Nova Music Festival which was attacked by Hamas on October 7 2023. The conflict in the Middle East has raged for over a year now, resulting in the deaths of tens of thousands of people

Letter: Leaders in Middle East must pursue peace not war

Ami Saada (R) looks at a window that was damaged after a rocket fired from Lebanon hit his house on August 25, 2024 in Acre, Israel. On Sunday morning, Israel announced it had launched "preemptive" airstrikes on southern Lebanon after detecting Hezbollah's preparations to attack northern Israel. Hezbollah responded by launching a series of drones against Israeli targets in retaliation for the recent death of one of its top commanders, Fuad Shukr, in an Israeli airstrike last month. A 48-hour state of emergency has been declared across Israel by Defense Minister Yoav Gallant. (Photo by Amir Levy/Getty Images)

'Pre-emptive strike against Hezbollah like defending against IRA or Russia'

Tanaiste Micheal Martin speaking to the media outside the Croke Park hotel in Dublin

Six Irish soldiers caught up in air attack in Lebanon village

Taoiseach Simon Harris

Irish citizens advised against travel to Israel or Lebanon

Catherine Flanagan with her son David Nahle who has been in Lebanon since August 2022

Belfast mum's desperate plea to help get her son returned home from Lebanon

Rev Dr William Morton

Thought for the week: Understanding the power of the scripture, and the power of...

Vinecash Presbyterian church, Portadown PIcture: Billy Maxwell

Presbyterian moderator on pastoral visit to Lebanon

Gerry Adams and martin McGuinness at Stormont. Republicans supposedly bought into Stormont yet it has been suspended many times

James Dingley: The deal has caused even unionists to dance to a republican tune

The coffin of Private Sean Rooney is carried into Holy Family Church, Dundalk, Co Louth for his funeral mass.

Funeral held for peacekeeping soldier killed in Lebanon

The body of Irish UN peacekeeping soldier Sean Rooney arriving at Casement Aerodrome, Baldonnel, on the outskirts of Dublin after being repatriated from Lebanon. Photo: Tom Honan/PA Wire

Body of Irish peacekeeper killed in Lebanon repatriated to Ireland

The body of Irish UN peacekeeping soldier Sean Rooney arriving at Casement Aerodrome, Baldonnel, on the outskirts of Dublin after being repatriated from Lebanon.

Body of Irish peacekeeper Pte Sean Rooney killed in Lebanon repatriated

Undated handout photo issued by Defence Forces of Private Sean Rooney of Newtowncunningham in Co Donegal, the Irish peacekeeping soldier killed in Lebanon. The 23-year-old, who was serving with a UN peacekeeping mission, died when his convoy came under attack.

Irish soldier killed on UN duty from Donegal

Undated handout photo issued by Defence Forces of Private Sean Rooney of Newtowncunningham in Co Donegal

Irish peacekeeping soldier killed in Lebanon attack named

Henry McDonald, an author of nine books who has worked for The Guardian, The Observer, The Sunday Times, BBC, the Irish News and Sunday News, now becomes political editor of the News Letter

The News Letter today announces new deputy and political editors
The News Letter has appointed a new deputy editor and political editor.
Ben Lowry

Dressing for the occasion in Uzbekistan

NI man resumes round the world adventure

Ross McMullan, Alliance Party councillor in Belfast who lived in Lebanon 10 years ago, at the school where he taught outside Beirut

Having lived in Lebanon, I am shocked at this explosion tragedy in a nation I ca...

Organisations like the Lebanese Red Cross are helping victims in Beruit. (Photo: Shutterstock)

This is how you can help victims of the devastating Beirut explosion

An explosion which shook the Lebanon capital is said to have been caused by ammonium nitrate (Getty Images)

This is what Ammonium Nitrate is used for - and why it caused a devastating expl...

A screenshot of the explosion in Beirut this evening.

Massive Beirut mushroom cloud explosion was heard 100 miles away in Cyprus

Brian Keenan speaks to an inmate during his visit to Magilligan

Brian Keenan Magilligan Prison visit delivers message of ‘great hope and encoura...

Artist recreates sexist adverts from 1950s - but reverses gender roles

Commemoration in Lurgan to Irish soldiers murdered in Lebanon

Pictured during the General Assembly Rev Fadi Elia Dagher Of the National Evangelical Synod of Syria and Lebanon.
Picture By Arthur Allison / Pacemaker.

Syrian man tells Belfast Presbyterians: I feel like one of you

Author William Matchett in 2016 at the News Letter with his book about the IRA.
Photo Colm Lenaghan/Pacemaker Press

An amnesty for security forces will help SF legitimise the IRA

Jane Caldwell hard at work to complete the wall hanging

Co Antrim gran's marathon sewing session for Syrian refugees
A kind-hearted grandmother has worked meticulously for the past two months to complete an intricate Middle Eastern style wall hanging in an act of solidarity with Syrian refugees.
By The Newsroom

Roberta Hamill

Grandmother, 77, completes wall hangings for Syrian refugee woman in Lebanon

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