In a bunker with a woman battlefield commander in Syria: ‘To be under the control of a patriarchal husband? I prefer to be here’ Battle-hardened officer lives like a soldier ready for action to safeguard ‘the people’Mon Mar 17 2025 - 11:00
Camp Shamrock, Lebanon: ‘There was a lot of pressure put on us by the Israelis to withdraw from our locations’ Having come under extreme pressure on the front line of the recent war between Israel and Hizbullah, Irish Unifil soldiers far from home are getting on with the job of peacekeepingSat Mar 15 2025 - 06:00
Hebrew graffiti and a mass funeral in a Lebanese village on the Israeli borderNinety five coffins are brought back to a village marked by Israeli military occupationSun Mar 09 2025 - 12:21
Civilians put themselves in firing line between Turkey and northeast SyriaTishreen Dam, on the Euphrates river, has become a flashpoint in the conflict between the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces and the Turkish-backed Syrian National Army Thu Mar 06 2025 - 16:58
‘We’ve become used to being betrayed’: US aid cuts affect camps for people accused of Isis affiliationTrump spending freeze threatens security arrangements and could make it harder to stop resurgence of Islamic StateSun Mar 02 2025 - 11:00
‘Privileged and blessed’: Irish citizens post positive coverage of Hizbullah on paid-for trip to LebanonSelf-described human rights defender Tara Reynor O’Grady and comedian Tadhg Hickey attended the funeral of assassinated Hizbullah leader Hassan NasrallahSat Mar 01 2025 - 06:00
‘Guantánamo on steroids’: Inside a prison for suspected Islamic State members in SyriaDuring my visit, an administrator says ‘that’s correct’ when I ask if many detainees had died from tuberculosis, and ‘no answer’ when I request the exact figureSat Mar 01 2025 - 06:00
Tens of thousands attend funeral of Hizbullah leader Hassan Nasrallah as Israeli jets fly overheadFlights to Beirut fully booked as thousands arrive from around the world, including Irish 'activists'Sun Feb 23 2025 - 20:25
Israel refuses to withdraw its forces fully from southern Lebanon as extended ceasefire deadline passesIDF says it will continue to ‘remain and temporarily control several control points inside southern Lebanon’Tue Feb 18 2025 - 20:45
Writer Omar El Akkad: ‘There have been so few bright spots in terms of ... national or institutional moral compass. Ireland has been a rare exception’ The US-based Egyptian-Canadian’s new book reads as a break-up letter with a West that has seen a derailment of normalcySat Feb 15 2025 - 05:00
Palestinian booksellers’ arrests by Israeli police prompt outcry ‘Bookseller of Jerusalem’ and his nephew operate famous Educational Bookshop stores in East JerusalemMon Feb 10 2025 - 19:13
‘I hope that one day I can visit my parents’ graves’: new reality for Gazans with ‘life-changing injuries’A UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights report found children aged five-nine accounted for the largest number of dead in Israel’s military onslaught, followed by 10-14 year olds and then babies and children aged 0-fourSun Jan 05 2025 - 15:00
The toll of war on Lebanon’s children: ‘They hid under beds, saying mattresses would protect them from rockets’Between October 2023 and the November 2024 ceasefire, Israeli attacks in Lebanon claimed at least 2,961 lives, including 248 childrenFri Jan 03 2025 - 11:00
After the fall of Assad, a family reunitesThe future is far from certain, but over juice and cakes one group of relatives celebrates finally being in the same room togetherTue Dec 24 2024 - 11:00
Inside Syria: Sally Hayden on the excitement and emotion of Syrians after Assad’s fallOne young man says, ‘I’m so mentally happy because any other regime that comes could never be as bad as the regime that has collapsed’Fri Dec 13 2024 - 19:35
Desperate search for the 100,000 missing continues as life returns to the streets of DamascusRebel coalition calls for people to return to work and ‘contribute to building a new Syria’Wed Dec 11 2024 - 20:16
Crowds throng Syria’s ‘human slaughterhouse’ drawn by hopes of a miracle reunionThey came from far and wide to search the notorious Sednaya prison, seeking answers but finding only disappointment and desperationTue Dec 10 2024 - 20:38
Checkpoints and guard posts burned or abandoned on the road into SyriaDespite jubilance, Syria is in grip of power vacuum and economic problems with path of evolution unclearMon Dec 09 2024 - 22:16
Syrians celebrate ‘new era’ as Bashar al-Assad reportedly flees to Moscow In a stunning 12-day advance, opposition forces achieved what 13 years of war could not: ending the Assad family’s brutal ruleSun Dec 08 2024 - 21:02
South Lebanon after the ceasefire: Ruins, funerals and talk of resistanceThe day after a ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah came into force 580,000 Lebanese people started moving back towards their homes. Video: Sally HaydenSat Dec 07 2024 - 07:35
South Lebanon after the ceasefire: Ruins, funerals and talk of resistanceThere are signs of mass return, of cleaning and clearing; a sense of reclamation, but also of griefFri Dec 06 2024 - 15:39
‘Now I wait on the hill for the Israeli bomb to drop’: Beirut nightclub photographer moves to a more serious beatWhen the war started and the clubs closed, Raghed Waked turned his focus to the conflict in LebanonThu Dec 05 2024 - 19:17
Ceasefire offers displaced southern Lebanese a chance to bury their deadDespite a halt to attacks, many Lebanese refer to a ‘one-sided ceasefire’ amid reports of multiple breaches by IsraelTue Dec 03 2024 - 18:23
Lebanon ceasefire: ‘We have no windows, no doors but we can live. Not like other people’Hours after a truce was called, people began to return to southern Lebanon without knowing if their homes remained intactWed Nov 27 2024 - 20:20
Beirut celebrates as Israel-Lebanon ceasefire confirmedPeople took to the streets in Beirut's southern suburbs as a ceasefire between Israel and Lebanon was confirmed. Video: Sally HaydenWed Nov 27 2024 - 16:37
‘People hope the fire will stop’ after Israel and Lebanon agree ceasefire‘Israel can say one thing today and tomorrow it can change,’ says Ali amid reports of a 60-day cessation of attacksTue Nov 26 2024 - 21:28
Ancient Tyre paying high price for being at the front in a modern warThe city has seen a mass exodus since Israel intensified its assault against Hizbullah, displacing more than 1.2m peopleTue Nov 26 2024 - 19:30
Death of a Hizbullah fighter: ‘With your blood Lebanon will win’Militant group is believed to have tens of thousands of recruits from Lebanese Shia communityWed Nov 20 2024 - 12:47
‘They are late today’: Waiting for an Israeli strike in BeirutRegular and deadly attacks have produced a strange, dark reality in Lebanon’s capitalFri Nov 15 2024 - 18:30
Beirut letter: Over the past two months, I have had an education in how fragile the human body isSally Hayden: How many innocent people must be killed or have their lives destroyed in Israel’s pursuit of `military targets’?Tue Nov 12 2024 - 05:00
‘We will leave when we die. We will have the real life after that’In Baalbek, eastern Lebanon, many of those who heeded Israeli evacuation warnings have returned home despite the continuing dangerSun Nov 10 2024 - 16:00
‘They are sending terrorism to us’: Israeli attacks continue killing civilians in LebanonBuilding struck in Barja was home to a lot of displaced people, say neighbours, as Lebanon’s ministry of health says at least 3,050 people have been killed in Israeli attacks since October 2023Wed Nov 06 2024 - 18:21
At least 30 killed following Israeli strike on Lebanon apartment blockAt least 30 people, including a seven-month-old baby, have been killed after an Israeli strike on an apartment building in Barja, Lebanon. Video: Sally HaydenWed Nov 06 2024 - 14:14
A Syrian refugee (3) died in Lebanon before she could come to Ireland. Her father says Irish authorities are partly to blameThree-year-old Hoda died before she could come to Ireland. Her father believes negligence and indifference of the authorities responsible for resettlement are at least partly to blameSat Nov 02 2024 - 06:00
Life in a Lebanese Palestinian camp: ‘We still don’t feel safe. At any time they may strike here as well’Women in Lebanon’s largest Palestinian camp talk about how their lives have been changed by Israel’s attackThu Oct 31 2024 - 14:49
Abandoned in Lebanon: How Ireland offered Syrian refugees a route to safety, then left them in a war zoneTwo years ago about 375 Syrians were interviewed in Lebanon by Irish officials and told they would be resettled in Ireland before 2024. They’re still waiting - amid bombs, deprivation and discrimination. Sally Hayden spoke to some of those people, who feel trapped, scared and forgottenTue Oct 29 2024 - 06:00
Israeli drones an essential part of EU’s attempt to stop refugees and migrants from reaching its territoryDrones ‘tested over Gaza’ have been reappropriated by the EU to monitor migrants in the MediterraneanMon Oct 28 2024 - 05:00
Repeated Israeli strikes cause widespread destruction in Nabatieh, LebanonFootage taken from Nabatieh, Lebanon shows the destruction caused by repeated Israeli strikes in the area. Video: Sally HaydenSat Oct 26 2024 - 10:24
Inside a Lebanese hospital: ‘We are here to help civilians, we can’t leave’Nabatieh has been under evacuation orders since early October. Despite this, civilians remain, and it is for them that city’s hospital stays open, staff saySat Oct 26 2024 - 05:00
‘They are bombing them directly’: Medics in Lebanon increasingly worried about ‘double tap’ air strikesMSF says at least 50 paramedics were killed by Israeli attacks in a single fortnight. Ambulance teams are delaying initial emergency responses to avoid getting hit in second act of ‘double-tap’ strikesMon Oct 14 2024 - 20:03
Palestinians care for displaced Lebanese in Beirut’s southern suburbsThe Refugee Dreams Association has mounted an emergency response to help some of the now roughly 1.2 million people displaced in Lebanon – more than one-fifth of the country’s populationSun Oct 13 2024 - 15:00
In pictures: In the rubble of LebanonSally Hayden’s photographs of bomb sites in southern LebanonSat Oct 12 2024 - 06:00
Beirut under attack: ‘It’s a devastating thing for your mind and heart’No sirens and no warning from Israeli forces before loud explosions shake the city and kill 22 peopleFri Oct 11 2024 - 17:51
Residential areas of Beirut left decimated following Israeli strikesLocals in Beirut were seen surveying the damage after Israeli missiles struck two residential areas of the Lebanese capital. Video: Sally HaydenFri Oct 11 2024 - 16:30
‘In the next weeks we will not be here. We will all die or we will be displaced’As Israel wages intense aerial assaults with the stated aim of getting its own displaced people home, many Lebanese worry that soon nowhere will be safeMon Oct 07 2024 - 18:37
The Bekaa Valley: Once known for its beauty and vineyards, now locals fear bombs at any momentAs Israel attempts a land invasion in Lebanon’s south, and continues with air strikes on Beirut’s southern suburbs, the Bekaa Valley in the east has also become a war zoneFri Oct 04 2024 - 06:00
Dahiyeh was an area bustling and full of life in Beirut. Now, as we walk around, it stands emptyBombings are audible right across Lebanon’s capital but have mainly concentrated on one part of Beirut’s southern suburbsThu Oct 03 2024 - 19:54
Anger and fear in Beirut: ‘The Israeli army are treating us like mice’Israel’s attacks on Lebanon have triggered a scramble to flee the country, while people who remain fear even more bloodshed is on the wayWed Oct 02 2024 - 17:16
Lebanon braces for Israeli ground invasion as the country reels from day of assassinationsAs many as a million people are thought to be displaced now in Lebanon, according to Lebanese authorities, while the death toll since September 16th is at least 1,135Mon Sept 30 2024 - 21:04
Life in Beirut: ‘At the beginning there was some bombing but we didn’t leave. Then there was another, so severe’At least 1,079 people have been killed by Israeli attacks in Lebanon over the last two weeks, and up to a million have been displacedSun Sept 29 2024 - 20:00
