Iraq has launched its biggest fight against Isis. PM Haider al-Abadi pledged to raise the Iraqi flag over Mosul once more.

Amira Karroum was beautiful and accomplished, but also lonely: an easy mark for the Islamic State recruiter who lured her to a barbaric death.

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.

Watch NZH Focus: As the ASEAN meeting gets underway in Laos, Prime ministers John Key and Malcolm Turnbull have publicly declared their status as “Best Friends Forever”. Police in Paris arrest a man after his car was found near the Notre Dame Cathedral with seven gas cylinders inside. and The inclusion of a fit-again Ryan Crotty at second five is the only change to the All Blacks starting fifteen to face Argentina on Saturday.

A Melbourne teen who planned to run down and behead a police officer in a gruesome Anzac Day terror attack will spend at least half his 20s in a cell.

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.

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.

Watch NZH Focus: President Barack Obama attacks Donald Trump saying he’s entirely unfit to serve as president. Thousands attend the funeral of French priest Father Jacques Hamel, who was murdered in his church by Islamist extremists.

10 new cases of Zika in Florida prompt health officials to advise pregnant women to avoid an area just north of downtown Miami. A Russian military helicopter is shot down in Syria's rebel-held Idlib province killing all five people on board. More than 1,000 migrants are rescued off the coast of Libya by the Italian coastguard.

COMMENT: Ghazala Khan's son, US Army Captain Humayun Khan, was killed in Iraq in 2004. This is her response to Donald Trump.

Watch NZH Focus: The father of a slain Muslim American soldier has described Donald Trump as having a 'black soul'.

Watch NZH Focus: Donald Trump's coming under renewed attack, from the family of a Muslim US soldier who was killed in Iraq. A memorial service has been held at Paris' Notre Dame Cathedral for the elderly priest who was murdered on his altar in Saint-Etienne-du-Rouvray last Tuesday. Poland's Catholic faithful have bid farewell to Pope Francis as the pontiff concluded his five-day visit to the country

Geneva's airport was placed in lockdown yesterday after a jilted wife phoned in a false bomb threat to try to stop her husband leaving from the airport.

Watch NZH Focus: German Chancellor Angela Merkel has pledged to do "everything humanly possible" to keep Germany safe following a string of attacks including two carried out by asylum-seekers. At least 77 people have died and several are missing in floods and landslides in Nepal. Donald Trump now he says he was joking when he ¬challenged Russia to hack into her emails

Isis' war on Europe seems to have entered a dangerous new phase.

UK police have foiled eight major plans for terror attacks across the UK in the last 12 months - the majority of which have been in London.