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Runaway girls with Isis, says spy report

Three British "jihadi brides" who ran away from home to join fighters from Isis were believed to have crossed the Turkish border into Syria.

Cabinet poised to approve Isis fight

Cabinet is expected to approve sending soldiers to help Iraqi forces fight the Islamic State group when it meets tomorrow.

UK schoolgirls head for Syria

Scotland Yard has warned of a growing trend of young women travelling to Syria after launching an urgent appeal to find three teenage schoolgirls.

Fight against ISIS: Back to Baghdad

NZ troops are preparing to return to Iraq, a decade after Kiwi soldiers were last in the violence-wracked nation. On Monday the cabinet is expected to set the ground rules for the deployment.

Bryce Edwards: Is NZ being conned into war in Iraq?

The public could be wise to be sceptical or wary about politicians trying to manipulate them about the global fight against ISIS, writes Bryce Edwards.

Isis' mass migration threat

Isis has threatened to flood Europe with half a million migrants from Libya in a 'psychological' attack against the West.

Nato's chief military officer to visit NZ tomorrow

Fears grow over more mass executions by Isis

At least 35 more Egyptian Christians are feared to have been kidnapped by jihadists in retaliation for air strikes on targets in Libya.

Isis on rise in fragile Libya

"Urgent. Soldiers of the Islamic State captured 21 Christian crusaders," was a barely noticed statement issued on social media last month by Isis - not in Syria, Iraq, but in Libya.

Isis handbook for women: Marry at nine

A document from an all-female wing of Isis spells out what's expected from women living under the strict regime - starting with marriage from age nine.

Editorial: Isis execution turns screws on Jordan

The Kingdom of Jordan seems to have miscalculated badly in its dealings with Isis (Islamic State) to negotiate the release of its captured pilot.

'NZ is not going to look the other way'

John Key used his speech on Te Tii Marae to justify sending troops to Iraq after he was questioned whether it was simply to please "the family" of Britain and the US.

Did Isis supporters decide pilot's fate?

A Twitter campaign ran in the days after the capture of a Jordanian pilot, in which Isis supporters suggested sick methods of his execution.

The battle that left a city in ruins

Buildings lie in waste, reduced to rubble. Others, their faces are shorn clean off. Bullet casings litter the streets, unexploded mortars burrow into pavements.

Pilot's horrific death brings revenge call

The Isis group's release of a video showing its fighters burning alive a captured Jordanian pilot sparked street protests calling for vengeance and threatened to draw Jordan's usually low-key monarch towards ever more direct confrontation with radical Isl

'Gay' man thrown off building

Disturbing images appear to show a man charged with having a homosexual affair being stoned to death after he survived being thrown off a building.