Here's a look at what the CIA's predictions in 2000 got right and wrong about the world of today.

Statistics show Americans have a far greater chance of being shot dead in shootings perpetrated by their fellow Christian Americans than in terrorist attacks by Muslims, writes Paul Thomas.

The number of foreign fighters who have travelled to Syria and Iraq to join militant groups such as Isis has more than doubled according to a study.

The terrifying extent of Isis' plans to build a state laid bare in a 24-page manual for the terror group leaked to the Guardian.

A Kiwi father-of-four is volunteering for a controversial US charity that has taken up arms in the bloody fight against ISIS.

Corbyn called the plan for strikes an 'ill-fated twist in never-ending war on terror', but lost the support of his caucus.

Twelve years ago, George W Bush gave his "Mission Accomplished" speech from the flight deck of the USS Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier, confident that the Saddam Hussein regime had been....

Belgian security forces are still hunting down suspected Isis militants after making more than a dozen arrests in a series of raids yesterday.

For nearly two years I had been working for an international aid agency, being sent between different humanitarian crises. I spent much of this time working with Syrian refugees on the Jordanian and Lebanese borders.

At least 36 people have been killed in air strikes by Russian and Syrian jets on Islamic State-controlled Deir Ezzor province, a monitor said.

Muslim communities have to be more forthright in their commitment to Western values and less indulgent of those in their midst who preach and practice hatred, writes Paul Thomas.

Islamic State supporters in New Zealand are being monitored, a police spokeswoman says.

France's Charles de Gaulle aircraft carrier will be deployed to the eastern Mediterranean to boost operations in Syria.

France launched fresh air strikes against Syria yesterday, as a defiant Paris reopened for business.

On the night of January 2, Belgian authorities closing in on a terror cell in the town of Verviers intercepted a telling piece of intelligence.

This will likely be the article no one will want to read, writes Johann Go. It is going to be the viewpoint that challenges the media and public orthodoxy surrounding the Paris attacks. This article challenges the current state of our world.

In an indication that Isis retains a capacity to strike after the Paris attacks, Iraqi intelligence said there were 24 people involved in the French operation.

Until stable regimes with meaningful values are rebuilt in the Middle East, the region will continue to hemorrhage refugees and spit out the kind of evil that has stained the streets of Paris with blood, writes Alexander Gillespie.

Our society is certainly not perfect, but the freedoms we enjoy have been hard fought for, writes Peter Lyons. We often fail to appreciate this rich history that we have been very fortunate to inherit.

It is important, amidst all the grief and anger in France, that President Francois Hollande's government do not respond by simply intensifying a military campaign that has failed to halt the rise of ISIS, writes Robert Patman.

Paris is a special place, a city the world associates with romance, culture, good times and the fine things of life.

Mohammed Emwazi was killed by a missile fired from a Reaper drone over Raqqa in Syria.

Supporters of Isis have praised the deadly attack on New South Wales police headquarters, extolling 15-year-old Farhad Khalil Mohammad Jabar as a "knight".

Prime Minister John Key will attend President Obama's summit on countering Isis early tomorrow morning New Zealand time.

Nothing less than a multifaceted strategy is required to address both the political causes and the military symptoms of the rise of Isis, writes Robert Patman.

Jihadists are defecting from Isis after their "Islamist utopia" of luxury cars and "heroism" never materialised.

The latest issue of Dabiq, Isis' English-language magazine, contains a conspicuous number of offensive provocations.