Ireland, Nepal to send peacekeepers to Golan Heights

Ireland is to send 114 peacekeepers to the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights to help monitor a decades-old truce between Israel and Syria that has been shaken by a spillover of violence from Syria's civil war.

Nepal is also transferring a company of its troops from the UN peacekeeping mission in Lebanon to the Golan Heights, a spokesman for the Lebanon mission said this week. (Reuters)