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People take part in a protest in the streets of the Yemeni Red Sea city of Hudeida, to condemn the overnight US and British forces strikes on Huthi rebel-held cities, on January 12, 2024, amid ongoing battles between Israel and the militant Hamas group in Gaza. US and British forces struck rebel-held Yemen early on January 12, after weeks of disruptive attacks on Red Sea shipping by the Iran-backed Huthis who say they act in solidarity with Gaza. The pre-dawn air strikes add to escalating fears of wider conflict in the region, where violence involving Tehran-aligned groups in Yemen as well as Lebanon, Iraq and Syria has surged since the Israel-Hamas was began in early October. (Photo by AFP)

US launches more air strikes on Yemen

The US carried out a new wave of attacks on Iran-backed Houthi rebels, after the militants warned of further raids on Red Sea ships.

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Businesses are shuttered at a shopping complex in the northern Israeli town of Kiryat Shmona, close to the border with Lebanon on January 5, 2024. The leader of Lebanon's Iran-backed Hezbollah warned Israel on January 5 that the group will swiftly respond

Hezbollah fires rockets after Hamas deputy killing

Lebanon’s Iran-linked Hezbollah says it has fired more than 60 rockets at an Israeli military base, as a response to the killing of Hamas’s deputy leader.

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TOPSHOT - This picture taken from southern Israel near the border with the Gaza Strip shows smoke rising from buildings after being hit by Israeli strikes, as battles resume between Israel and Hamas militants, on December 1, 2023. A temporary truce between Israel and Hamas expired on December 1, with the Israeli army saying combat operations had resumed, accusing Hamas of violating the operational pause. (Photo by John MACDOUGALL / AFP)

Israel attacks hundreds of ‘terror targets’

Air, naval and ground forces have been involved in the military missions, the IDF says, adding fighter jets hit more than 50 targets in an extensive attack in Gaza’s south.

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SDEROT, ISRAEL - OCTOBER 28: Israeli tanks and troops move near the border with Gaza on October 28, 2023 in Sderot, Israel. In the wake of the Oct. 7 attacks by Hamas that left 1,400 dead and 200 kidnapped, Israel launched a sustained bombardment of the Gaza Strip and threatened a ground invasion to vanquish the militant group that governs the Palestinian territory. But the fate of the hostages, Israelis and foreign nationals who are being held by Hamas in Gaza, as well as international pressure over the humanitarian situation in Gaza, have complicated Israel's military response to the attacks. A timeline for a proposed ground invasion remains unclear. (Photo by Dan Kitwood/Getty Images)

Israeli forces dig in after land and air attacks

Israel’s military says it has eliminated two more Hamas commanders as its front-line forces dig in in Gaza after incursions begin.

Yoni Bashan, Jacquelin Magnay, staff writers and AFP

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RAFAH, GAZA - OCTOBER 21: The entry of humanitarian aid arrives through the Rafah land crossing into the Gaza Strip on October 21, 2023 in Rafah, Gaza. Two weeks after a deadly Hamas attack in southern Israel that sparked a retaliatory siege of Gaza, in which thousands have died and hundreds of thousands have been displaced, aid trucks have started entering the Palestinian territory via Egypt carrying food, water and medicines. The UN agency UNRWA, or the Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees, says the initial aid is a

Gaza receives first aid trucks since Hamas attack

The first of 20 trucks carrying humanitarian aid entered the besieged Gaza Strip through the Rafah border crossing with Egypt.

Jacquelin Magnay and AFP

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Passengers look at a departure board at Ben Gurion Airport near Tel Aviv, Israel, on October 7, 2023, as flights are canceled because of the Hamas surprise attacks. The conflict sparked major disruption at Tel Aviv airport, with American Airlines, Emirates, Lufthansa and Ryanair among carriers with cancelled flights. (Photo by GIL COHEN-MAGEN / AFP)

Australia halts evacuations in ‘challenging situation’

The Australian government says there will be no evacuation flights for Australians from Israel this weekend because of the ‘rapidly changing’ security situation.

Jacquelin Magnay and Agencies

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Kamalle Dabboussy reunites with his daughter Mariam Dabboussy and her three children. Source: ABC

Terrorist families find there’s no place like home-made fools

The Albanese government sees no issue with welcoming back women who abandoned Australia to hook up with the most depraved, barbaric terrorists the world has seen. It won’t end well.

(FILES) This undated file handout photo provided by the Alexandria Virginia Sheriff's Office on January 31, 2022, shows Allison Fluke-Ekren. - Allison Fluke-Ekren, 42, who grew up as a Christian on a farm in Kansas and converted to Islam as an adult, was sentenced federal court in Alexandria, Virginia, on November 1, 2022, to 20 years in prison by a US court, after being convicted of providing material support to a terrorist organization. (Photo by Alexandria Virginia Sheriff's Office / AFP) / RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE - MANDATORY CREDIT

US woman who led ISIS unit gets 20 years

Allison Fluke-Ekren, 42, who grew up on a farm in Kansas, pleaded guilty to providing material support to a terrorist organisation.

Chris Lefkow

The Wall Street Journal

Eastern District of New York US Attorney Breon Peace speaks during a press conference in New York City on October 18, 2022. - French cement giant Lafarge SA will pay a $778 million fine after pleading guilty to providing material support to Islamic State and other terror groups during the Syrian civil war, the US Justice Department announced. (Photo by TIMOTHY A. CLARY / AFP)

French cement firm paid off ISIS

Lafarge agrees to pay a fine of $US778m for conspiracy to provide material support to foreign terrorist organisations.

James Fanelli and Corinne Ramey

The Wall Street Journal

Islamic State fighter (ISIS; ISIL) waving a flag while standing on captured government fighter jet in Raqqa, Syria, 2015. (Photo by: Universal History Archive/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

ISIS turns to NFTs

National security analysts see them as a potentially dangerous platform for recruiting and funding.

Ian Talley

A picture shows debris at the site where a US drone targeted Maher al-Agal, a leader in the Islamic State militant group, near the village of Khaltan, near Jindires in northern Syria, on July 12, 2022. - A man US officials called the leader of the Islamic State militant group in Syria was killed Tuesday in a drone strike, the Pentagon said. Maher al-Agal was killed while riding a motorcycle near Jindires in northern Syria, and one of his top aides was

US drone strike takes out ISIS chief

Maher al-Agal was killed and one of his top aides seriously wounded while on a motorcycle outside Aleppo.

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APRIL 2, 2003: Protester Delil Alexander arrested at Darlinghurst 02/04/03, following the Books Not Bombs anti- Gulf War protest at the Town Hall in Sydney. Pic Scott Hornby. NSW / Demonstration / Iraq

High Court puts citizenship front and centre of IS debate

The government must now work out how to stop wannabe terrorists returning to Australia.

RODGER SHANAHAN

(FILES) In this file handout photo taken on February 10, 2018, and provided by the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) shows captured Islamic State (IS) group fighter El Shafee el-Sheikh, posing for a mugshot in an undisclosed location. - El Shafee Elsheikh, a member of the notorious Islamic State kidnap-and-murder cell known as the

ISIS ‘Beatle’ guilty of hostage deaths

A former Briton – known to Islamic State comrades as a ‘Beatle’ – has been was convicted over the execution of four American hostages.

Chris Lefkow and Charlotte Plantive

TOPSHOT - Syrians flee their homes in the Ghwayran neighbourhood in the northern city of Hasakeh on January 22, 2022, on the third day of fighting between the Islamic State (IS) group and Kurdish forces in Syria after IS attacked a prison housing jihadists in the area. - The assault has claimed over 70 lives, a monitor said, and is one of IS's most significant since its

Prison raid ISIS’s biggest target since caliphate’s end

Fighting between Islamic State and Kurdish forces has raged for three days – and killed nearly 90 people – after an attack on a Syrian prison housing jihadists.

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US President Joe Biden salutes after getting off Marine One on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, DC on July 25, 2021. - Biden is returning to Washington, DC after spending the weekend at his Wilmington residence. (Photo by Andrew CABALLERO-REYNOLDS / AFP)

Biden pulls combat troops out of Iraq

The announcement will be part of a deal signed with Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi.

Richard Spencer

terrorists regroupThe Times

Ivorian soldiers drive on the back of a vehicle outside the International Academy for Combating Terrorism (AILCT) in Jacqueville in Ivory Coast on June 10, 2021. - The creation of the AILCT in a West Africa where several countries are plagued by jihadist attacks - Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (Aqmi), Islamic State (EI), Boko Haram - had been formalized in November 2017 by French President Emmanuel Macron and Ivorian President Alassane Ouattara, on the sidelines of a summit between the African Union (AU) and the European Union (EU) in Abidjan. (Photo by Issouf SANOGO / AFP)

New front: IS, al-Qa’ida ready to unleash terror again

Intelligence agencies are bracing for the emergence of ‘caliphates’ across Africa, as IS regroups after Mideast setbacks.

Michael Evans and Jane Flanagan

(FILES) This undated US Air Force file photo released on June 20, 2019 shows a photo of a RQ-4 Global Hawk unmanned surveillance and reconnaissance aircraft. - The United States launched cyber attacks against Iranian missile control systems and a spy network after Tehran downed an American surveillance drone, according to US media reports. US president Donald Trump secretly authorized US Cyber Command to carry out a retaliatory attack on Iran, The Washington Post reported on June 22, 2019, shortly after the US president pledged to hit the Islamic republic with major new sanctions. (Photo by Handout / US AIR FORCE / AFP) / RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE - MANDATORY CREDIT

Biden brings drone war to a halt

In the first two months of the new administration there have been no reported drone strikes against al-Qa’ida or ISIS targets.

Michael Evans

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TOPSHOT - An Aerial view taken on February 24, 2021 shows temporary houses in the Napala Agrarian Center of Metuge District, Cabo Delgado, northern Mozambique. - The place functions as a center for displaced people who fled their communities due to attacks by armed insurgents in the northern area of Cabo Delgado's province. 3,000 people currently live according to government figures. (Photo by Alfredo Zuniga / AFP)

US slaps sanctions on Africa ISIS arms

Move underscores rising threat of radical group outside Middle East.

Benoit Faucon and Gordon Lubold

Pope Francis (C) arrives at the ruins of the Syriac Catholic Church of the Immaculate Conception (al-Tahira-l-Kubra), in the northern city of Mosul on March 7, 2021. - Pope Francis, on his historic Iraq tour, visits today Christian communities that endured the brutality of the Islamic State group until the jihadists'

Pope prays for war victims in Iraq

With the crumbling stone walls of the Al-Tahera Church behind him, Pope Francis made a plea for Christians in the Middle East to stay in their homelands.

Catherine Marciano and Sarah Benhaida

Women and children are pictured at the Kurdish-run al-Hol camp which holds suspected relatives of Islamic State (IS) group fighters, in the northeastern Syrian Hasakeh governorate, on February 17, 2021. (Photo by Delil SOULEIMAN / AFP)

Iraq braced for renewed assault by ISIS

Thousands of jihadists have emerged from hiding among civilians to reform under a core leadership in the mountains.

Larisa Brown

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Job ID PD838162: Peter Jennings. Chief Advocate of World Vision Australia & Chair of Community Council for Australia Tim Costello and Executive Director of the Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI); Peter Jennings at the National Press Club in Canberra. Picture Gary Ramage

Brace for Islamist propaganda blitz

Extremist Islamist groups in Afghanistan are likely to use the Brereton war crimes inquiry to fuel propaganda against Australian troops, experts warn.

Richard Ferguson

AnalysisThe Times

FILE - In this Aug. 23, 2011, file photo provided by the Defense Video & Imagery Distribution System, shows Army Staff Sgt. Robert Bales during an exercise at the National Training Center at Fort Irwin, Calif. Bales, an Army staff sergeant charged with slaughtering 16 villagers in one of the worst atrocities of the Afghanistan war, is expected to plead guilty Wednesday June 5, 2013 in an attempt to avoid the death penalty. (AP Photo/DVIDS, Spc. Ryan Hallock, File)

Matter of survival can spur brutality

War is dehumanising, particularly for those who serve in units involved in covert operations.

MICHAEL EVANS

A man, wounded after gunmen stormed Kabul university, arrives in an ambulance to Isteqlal Hospital in Kabul on November 2, 2020. - Gunmen stormed Kabul university on November 2 ahead of the opening of an Iranian book fair, firing shots and sending students fleeing, Afghan officials and witnesses said. (Photo by WAKIL KOHSAR / AFP)

22 dead after ISIS attack on Kabul uni

At least 22 people were killed when attackers stormed one of Afghanistan’s main universities on Monday, an hours-long assault claimed by Islamic State group.

AFP

Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton arrives for question time today in the house of representatives.Tuesday 1st August 2020. Photograph by Mike Bowers. Guardian Australia. Coronavirus Australia.POOL PHOTOGRAPHS FROM BACK DOOR

Covid used to recruit terrorists

The threat of Islamic State extremists and hundreds of returned fighters across the Asia-Pacific region has remained at a high level through the COVID-19 pandemic.

Anti-terror weaponThe Times

Spc. Ethan Esposito, Joint Multinational Training Command, fires his M4 carbine rifle during United States Army Europe's Best Warrior Competition in Grafenwoehr, Germany, July 31, 2012. (U.S. Army)

US tests gun that can’t miss

US special operations troops in Syria are testing a ‘smart’ rifle sight that guarantees first-time hits.

Michael Evans

An Iraqi Counter Terrorism Section (CTS) member holds binoculars inside a building during clashes with Islamic State (IS) group jihadists near the village of Bazwaya, on the eastern edges of Mosul, on October 31, 2016. Iraqi special forces neared the eastern city limits of Mosul on Monday, tightening the noose as the offensive to retake the Islamic State group stronghold entered its third week. / AFP PHOTO / BULENT KILIC

ISIS fighters plundered kings’ Iraqi treasure trove

Islamic State fighters who uncovered an ancient Assyrian palace under the ruins of Mosul are feared to have sold war booty stored by kings.

Richard Spencer

COMMENTARYThe Wall Street Journal

TOPSHOT - A foreign woman, living in al-Hol camp which houses relatives of Islamic State (IS) group members, looks back in the camp in al-Hasakeh governorate in northeastern Syria on March 28, 2019. (Photo by GIUSEPPE CACACE / AFP)

‘They mocked the niqab. Now they do same’

Jihadists are gloating over the health restrictions enacted across the world, with many cheering the virus on.

Steven Stalinsky

The new leader of the Islamic State terror group is Amir Mohammed Abdul Rahman al-Mawli al-Salbi.

New ISIS chief led Yazidi genocide

The new leader of ISIS has been named as a former member of al-Qa’ida in Iraq who led the slaughter of thousands of Yazidis.

David Rose

A British soldier 26-year-old Lance Corporal Brodie Gillon, killed in a rocket attack on a military base in Iraq. She was killed alongside two US troops in the attack on Camp Taji, north of Baghdad, on Wednesday. Picture Facebook

ISIS video boasts of resurgence

ISIS has released a new propaganda video in which it boasts of carrying out a series of guerrilla attacks in northern Iraq.

David Rose

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Terrorist arrests. Raid. Alleged terrorist are transported to the Melbourne Custody Centre under tight security by the Australian Federal Police and Victorian Police.

Woman ‘recruited for Islamic State’

Counter-terrorism officers have arrested a Melbourne woman they say tried to recruit a person to fight with the terror group.

MARK SCHLIEBS

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