Islamic State
Opinion
Israeli-Palestinian conflict
Telling Israel the killing must stop in Gaza is not antisemitic
Israel had every right respond to Hamas, but some of its supporters ignore a critical constraint under international law.
- by Rodger Shanahan
Latest
‘The fear is palpable’: Australian women and children trapped in Syria afraid for their lives
Australia has had five years to repatriate dozens of women and children who went to Syria under Islamic State.
- by Michael Bachelard
‘Depraved ideology’: Terrorist smiles after being jailed over Islamic State pledge
Aran Sherani, who pledged allegiance to the terror group after lighting bushfires, may be out of prison in just under three years.
- by Tara Cosoleto
Germany to step up deportations after stabbing
Visiting the site of last weekend’s stabbing, which has emboldened his far-right opposition, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz called it ‘terrorism against us all’.
- by Rachel More
Explainer
Middle East tensions
Houthis, Hezbollah and Hamas: Who they are and what they want
As Israeli troops raid Lebanon, conflict is spreading again in the Middle East. Who are the key players, and what is the Axis of Resistance?
- by Jackson Graham, Angus Holland and Cindy Yin
Islamic State material ‘found at suspect’s home in foiled plot to attack Taylor Swift shows’
Security officials allege the suspects wanted to commit an attack outside the stadium, killing as many people as possible using knives or self-made explosives.
- by Alexandra Schwarz-Goerlich
Islamic State widow weeps in court as she avoids jail
Mariam Raad married a terrorist while she was still a Sydney schoolgirl. She has now learned her fate for travelling to a “hostile” part of Syria during the reign of the Islamic Caliphate.
- by Olivia Ireland
Teen terror plot to attack Olympics foiled by French security services
The Chechen teenager was suspected of plotting an Islamic State-inspired attack on a football match during the Paris Olympics, authorities said.
- by Rob Harris
‘We were fish in a barrel’: West Australian man recalls being shot by ISIS
A WA adventure tourist targeted in a deadly shooting in central Afghanistan thought he would die after coming face to face with an ISIS gunman.
- by Aaron Bunch
Accused Islamic State terrorist Neil Prakash visited radical mosque by chance, court told
A court has heard transport issues on a day in 2012 meant Neil Prakash ended up at a controversial Melbourne mosque, where he heard an inflammatory sermon and began a path of radicalisation.
- by Marta Pascual Juanola
Radicalised student highlights ‘growing issue’ in WA schools, experts say
Experts warn the generation currently going through school is the first to grow up living much of their lives on social media, which presents a radicalisation threat.
- by Holly Thompson
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