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Australian women and children at the Al-Hawl camp in northeast Syria. Picture: Supplied

Aussie ISIS brides face arrest

The AFP has issued the first arrest warrants for Australian women suspected of fighting with Islamic State.

PAUL MALEY

World

In this photo released on May 4, 2015, by a militant website, which has been verified and is consistent with other AP reporting, Islamic State militants, foreground, stand behind three men they accused of being homosexuals, as they prepare to kill them, in Raqqa city, Syria. The Washington-based Syria Justice and Accountability Center, a U.S.-based Syrian rights group, said Thursday, Jan. 16, 2020, that evidence, documents produced by the Islamic State militants themselves, could help identify individuals responsible for atrocities during the militants four-year reign of terror in Syria, thus enabling prosecution for international crimes.Â (Militant website via AP)

ISIS papers expose brutality

Documents reveal how ISIS used one of its most powerful bureaucratic bodies to regulate daily life and execute penalties.

EditorialEditorials

Jihadists radicalising inmates

Prisons must not become a breeding ground for terrorists.

Editorial

SecurityDefence

ASIO Director General Mike Burgess appearing at a Senate Estimates hearing on Legal and Constitutional Affairs at Parliament House in Canberra. Picture Kym Smith

Islamist terror our main danger: ASIO

Right-wing terrorism is a ‘small but significant’ part of our extremist threat, but is dwarfed by that posed by Islamic radicals.

PAUL MALEY

inside storyWorld

The extradition of Agim Ajazi , accused of being an al-Qaeda terrorist , from Adelaide Airport today . Picture: Nine News

Turkey sends back first Aussie ‘jihadi’

Agim Ajazi has bome the first accused Australian fighter to be deported by Turkey.

MARK SCHLIEBS

The Wall Street Journal

The newly wedded couple Hanan and Mohammad return to their temporary home in a school building, transformed into a makeshift shelter for displaced people, on their wedding day in the northern SYrian city of Hasakeh on December 1, 2019. - The couple who fled with their families from the northeastern town of Ras al-Ein following the Turkish offesive against the Kurdish-dominated region and were wedded after being in love for three years. (Photo by Delil souleiman / AFP)

ISIS returnees put allies at odds

Allies are at odds over how to prosecute and detain about 2000 foreign Islamic State fighters held in Syria.

Michael R. Gordon and Benoit Faucon

InquirerInquirer

NO BYLIN EPLEASE....Hamdi Alqudsi and his lawyer Zali Burrows arrives at Parramatta Court. Hamdi Alqudsi has been charged with recruiting and assisting people with the intention of facilitating their entry into Syria for hostile activity...NO BYLIN EPLEASE

Terrorism all in the mind

During court cases involving terrorism, defendants often raise mental health factors at the plea and sentencing stage. New research shows the weight judges place on this evidence

Rodger Shanahan

Extremist studyPolitics

Jihadi recruits ‘sane, settled and not sorry’

The average Australian jihadi has no mental health issues and shows little remorse for crimes.

PAUL MALEY

ISIS-INSPIRED PLOTNation

Ertunc Eriklioglu is taken from AFP offices in Latrobe street after several terror raids in Melbourne's North this morning. Picture Jay Town

Terror accused ‘wanted to make a difference’

Ertunc Eriklioglu initially thought IS were trying to create a safe place for Muslims to live, court hears.

Remy Varga

UK electionWorld

Jeremy Corbyn is slammed for suggesting the Islamic State leader should have been captured alive.

Better if IS boss was detained: Corbyn

Boris Johnson condemns Jeremy Corbyn for wanting Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi captured alive.

Jacquelin Magnay

World

Armed British police officers stand on duty outside Parsons Green underground tube station in west London on September 15, 2017, following an incident on an underground tube carriage at the station. Police and ambulance services said they were responding to an

UK downgrades terror threat

Britain has downgraded its national terrorism threat level from “severe” to “substantial’’, the lowest level in five years.

Jacquelin Magnay

commentaryCommentary

ISIS brides owe an apology, not excuses

Female members of Islamic State are not the pawns they would have us believe.

Jennifer Oriel

World

Thank you Daily Wire. Very cute recreation, but the “live” version of Conan will be leaving the Middle East for the White House sometime next week! https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/1189601417469841409 …

Hero dog gets Trump homecoming

The dog wounded in the raid that killed ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi is getting a White House homecoming next week.

The Times

This image released by the Department of Defense on Wednesday, Oct. 30, 2019, and displayed at a Pentagon briefing, shows an image of Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. (Department of Defense via AP)

ISIS appoints Baghdadi successor

Islamic State has officially confirmed the death of its leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, and named his successor.

Catherine Philp

First imagesWorld

Dramatic Baghdadi raid images released

The Pentagon releases video, photos and details of the raid on Baghdadi’s compound | WATCH

Agencies

commando raidWorld

This screen shot of US President Donald Trump Twitter account taken on October 28, 2019 in Washington DC, shows a picture of a dog that helped capture the Leader of ISIS Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. - The picture of the dog (name not declassified) was twitted by US President Donald Trump on October 28, 2019. (Photo by Eric BARADAT / TWITTER / AFP) / RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE - MANDATORY CREDIT

Very good boy: Hero hound back on the job after collaring terror boss

Fresh details surface about the operation that led to the death of IS chief Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.

ISIS leader’s deathWorld

FILE - This file image made from video posted on a militant website April 29, 2019, purports to show the leader of the Islamic State group, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, being interviewed by his group's Al-Furqan media outlet. The IS erupted from the chaos of Syria and Iraq's conflicts and swiftly did what no Islamic militant group had done before, conquering a giant stretch of territory and declaring itself a

How Baghdadi’s underwear led to raid

US forces targeting Baghdadi knew they had the right man after a Kurd spy stole his underwear.

Agencies

World

In this photo provided by the White House, President Donald Trump is joined by from left, national security adviser Robert O'Brien, Vice President Mike Pence, Defense Secretary mark Esper, Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Mark Milley and Brig. Gen. Marcus Evans, Deputy Director for Special Operations on the Joint Staff, Saturday, Oct. 26, 2019, in the Situation Room of the White House in Washington. monitoring developments as U.S. Special Operations forces raid that took out Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. (Shealah Craighead/The White House via AP)

Raid live-streamed to White House

Donald Trump watched with his top advisers as US special forces raided the compound of ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.

Katanga Johnson

inquirerThe Times

Media-savvy leader changed face of terrorism

Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi seared himself into the world’s consciousness as the figurehead of a new brand of violent jihadism

Hannah Lucinda Smith

WORLD COMMENTARYWorld

Death of ISIS leader a triumph

The death of Islamic State leader Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi is a severe blow to ISIS.

Greg Sheridan

World

People look at a destroyed houses near the village of Barisha, in Idlib province, Syria, Sunday, Oct. 27, 2019, after an operation by the U.S. military which targeted Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the shadowy leader of the Islamic State group. President Donald Trump says Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi is dead after a U.S. military operation in Syria targeted the Islamic State group leader. (AP Photo/Ghaith Alsayed)

Baghdadi died like a dog: Trump

Donald Trump says Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi died ‘like a dog’ during a raid in Syria by US troops.

CommentaryInquirer

Islamic State fighters pose with their flag.

Reinvented ISIS on a road to revenge

Baghdadi’s transformation into a martyr will give fighters worldwide a reason to avenge his death. We will see a rash of vengeance attacks.

David Kilcullen

Baghdadi raidNation

Prime Minister Scott Morrison during a visit to Ace Gutters in Sydney, Monday, October 28, 2019. The federal and NSW governments are banding together to bring forward an upgrade to the electricity interconnector between NSW and Queensland, to the tune of $102 million. (AAP Image/Dean Lewins) NO ARCHIVING

‘ISIS is a many-headed monster’

Scott Morrison cautions the fight against ISIS hasn’t ended with the death of its leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.

Olivia Caisley

SECRET OPERATIONWorld

Donald Trump has announced the death of IS leader.

Terror leader ‘died like a dog’

Donald Trump reveals how Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi ‘whimpered’ as special forces chased him down.

Jacquelin Magnay

The Nation

Australian woman Zehra Duman (centre) with aid workers from the Free Burma Rangers in Syria.

No help for Aussie IS bride: PM

An IS supporter who fled Melbourne to marry a jihadist wants to come home. Scott Morrison says he won’t help.

Greg Brown

National Security

TOPSHOT - Men suspected of being Islamic State (IS) group fighters walk together towards a screening point for new arrivals run by US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces, where suspected jihadists -- many of them wounded -- were being interrogated outside Baghouz in the eastern Syrian Deir Ezzor province on March 6, 2019. - Veiled women carrying babies and wounded men on crutches hobbled out of the last jihadist village in eastern Syria on March 6 after US-backed forces pummelled the besieged enclave. The Syrian Democratic Forces leading the assault expected more fighters to surrender with their families in tow before moving deeper in the Islamic State group's last redoubt. (Photo by Delil souleiman / AFP)

Australia rejects IS fighter call

Australia has dismissed a US call to bring home-grown IS fighters back to Australia, saying it’s best they don’t return to our shores.

The Times

Shamima Begum during an interview with the BBC. Picture: BBC

Rescue plan for ISIS bride kids

Home Office is working out how to rescue British children born to foreign fighters as two more jihadi brides are stripped of their citzenship.

Richard Ford

Wall Street Journal

FILE - In this Friday, Feb. 22, 2019 file photo, men walk to be screened after being evacuated out of the last territory held by Islamic State group militants, near Baghouz, eastern Syria, Friday, Feb. 22, 2019. Even as they face imminent defeat, militants of the IS have remained organized and ruthless to their last breath, keeping their institutions functioning as best they can (AP Photo/Felipe Dana, File )

Captured ISIS forces a burden on allies

Allies are holding more than 2000 suspected IS fighters in Syria. The puzzle is what to do with them next.

Nancy Youssef and Gordon Lubold

Inquirer

Civilians evacuated from the Islamic State (IS) group's embattled holdout of Baghouz wait at a screening area held by the US-backed Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), in the eastern Syrian province of Deir Ezzor, on March 5, 2019. - Kurdish-led forces launched a final assault Friday on the last pocket held by the Islamic State group in eastern Syria, their spokesman said. The

AFTERLIFE OF THE CALIPHATE

Islamic State is down but not quite out, and it could be revived.

David Kilcullen

National Security

Bumbling jihadi’s Kiwi problem

Jacinda Ardern says a New Zealand national Islamic State recruit who encouraged terror attacks in Australia will struggle to return home.

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