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France steps up response

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

France draws on its strength

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

Officials connect Paris assailants to 'guru'

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.

Johann Go: Why do some attacks get more coverage than others?

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.

Donna Miles-Mojab: West must work with Muslims to fight Isis

A 2009 Gallup survey of European Muslims showed they are just as likely, if not more so, to identify with the country in which they live, than the rest of the population.

French revenge: 160 anti-terror raids

The intense manhunts unfolded as clearer portraits emerged of the network behind the carnage that left at least 129 people dead.

Iraqis say they issued warning

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.

Alexander Gillespie: Attacks will continue until Middle East is stable

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.

Isis uses image as 'grim warning'

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

US secret kill squad

The clandestine programme represents a significant escalation of the CIA's involvement in the war in Syria, enlisting the agency's powerful Counterterrorism Centre.

ISIS accused of chemical attack

German troops involved in a coalition training mission in Iraq have reported that Isis (Islamic State) fighters have used chemical weapons on a Kurdish militia.

Isis list 'open call for lone wolf attacks'

Homegrown extremists will not be concerned a kill list the so-called Islamic State purportedly published is riddled with dated or public information, a security analyst says.

Man on Isis list 'wary of threat'

The New Zealander's father said his son had no connection to any military group and he could not understand why the name was listed.

Father: Son wary of Isis threat

The father of the New Zealander on the Isis "kill list" says "he's holding up as well as can be expected but obviously he's looking over his shoulder".

Kurds seen as target of blast

A suspected female Isis suicide bomber set off an explosion near a cultural centre hosting youth activists in a Turkish border town, leaving 30 dead and scores injured.

Britons told go on war footing

Britain must accept that "sooner or later" ground troops and tanks will have to be sent into combat to overcome Isis a former chief of the Armed Forces has said.