Thousands of residents poured out of eastern neighbourhoods of Mosul yesterday, the first significant wave of people to escape the city held by Isis.

New Zealand's top security systems were activated to deal with a serious domestic terrorism threat, it has emerged.

Russia has released the first image of its new nuclear missile, a weapon so powerful that it could wipe out nearly all of the UK or France.

NZ has a "broad sense" of the number of Kiwis fighting with IS and has monitoring in place in case they tried to return home, John Key says.

A baby-faced poker fanatic was last night at the centre of a major counter-terror investigation into a crude bomb left on a Tube train.

A fire set by Isis (Islamic State) militants at a sulphur mine near the city of Mosul in recent days sent plumes of noxious gases over the battlefield.

A 'viable device' found on a London Underground train was part of a plot to attack the transport network, it is believed.

Europe must prepare for a fresh influx of Isis jihadists fleeing Mosul as the Iraqi Army moves in on their last stronghold in the country.

Kurdish fighters meet fierce resistance from jihadists in battle for Mosul.

Thick black plumes of smoke carry for kilometres over the northern Iraqi landscape, blotting out the afternoon sun and making it feel like night.

A Syrian man suspected of planning a bomb attack in Germany on behalf of Isis (Islamic State) was arrested after being captured by fellow Syrians.

Harry Sarfo's sanitized tale of being an innocent bystander reveals worrisome blind spots for intelligence authorities.

"It is a scary time because you never know when it will happen again."

Nine days after the 9/11, 2001, attacks, George W. Bush stood before Congress to outline a two-pronged response to history's deadliest terrorist act.

Gathering dust in a New York basement are 3,483 items from victims of 9/11 - among them fragments of jewellery, wallets and keys - waiting for reclamation.

A 22-year-old man charged with committing a terrorist act following a stabbing in Sydney's west was inspired by Isis, police say.

COMMENT: Today's date has haunted the world for a decade and a half.

Comment: What has the so-called 'War on Terror' achieved a decade and a half after 9/11?

Churches should have a 'bouncer' on the door throughout services to improve security an expert warns small parish churches are more at risk of attack.

Watch NZH Focus: Could Aliens have sent a ‘strong message’ from deep in space, scientists are investigating a signal from a star around 94 light years from Earth. The European Commission orders Apple to pay 20 billion dollars in back taxes in Ireland. And a 7 year old girl finds an 1992 Olympic gold medal in a pile of rubbish in Atlanta.

Watch NZH Focus: About 170 team members of our Olympic team have touched down at Auckland airport this morning. Russia loses its appeal against a ban from next month's Rio Paralympics because of a state-sponsored doping program And a fisherman in the Philippines finds a giant pearl worth as much as 136 million dollars and keeps it under his bed for 10 years.

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Watch NZH Focus: Triple Olympic medalist Lisa Carrington will carry the flag for the New Zealand team at the Rio Olympics closing ceremony. And the suicide bomber who killed 51 people at a wedding in Turkey was a child between 12 and 14 years old, thats according to President Tayyip Erdogan.

Presidential hopeful Donald Trump repeatedly suggested that there were links between President Barack Obama and the organisation Isis (Islamic State).

The principal railway station for Disneyland Paris was evacuated after a 'suspicious package' was found inside.

Isis terrorists have called for attacks at the Miss World competition due to be held in the Philippines in January.

A leaked executive memo from the New Zealand Defence Force warns a terror attack on home soil is "not a matter of if, but when".

COMMENT: The message is clear: there is, from now on, no safe haven from terror on French soil.

COMMENT: London's Metropolitan Police Commissioner, Sir Bernard Hogan-Howe, wrote an important article for the Mail on Sunday this week.

Liberals and non-believers, Islamic State don't like you very much.