Prime Minister John Key says any final decision on New Zealand's contribution to fighting Isis (Islamic State) in Iraq is still weeks away and he downplayed any risk of retaliation against New Zealanders.

A video has emerged online claiming one of the two hostages being held by Isis has been killed and showing the other hostage outlining new terms for his release.

Japan is vowing to "never give up" its struggle to save two hostages held captive by Islamic State (Isis) militants.

The collapse of the government in Sanaa means the United States has lost a reliable partner in its fight against al-Qaeda in Yemen with potentially dire consequences, experts say.

The Prime Minister has told a BBC interviewer New Zealand's military contribution to the war against jihadists in Iraq and Syria is "the price of the club".

Hostages are a "military consultant" who headed to war zones after his wife died of cancer and a journalist dedicated to revealing horrors of war.

America's most unrepentant news network has issued a string of on-air apologies for broadcasting erroneous information, including an expression of regret.

In 1992, two boys who would grow up slaughter 12 people at Charlie Hebdo, came home to find their mother lying dead in their council flat in Paris.

Many girls from the Yazidi community in Iraq are committing suicide after being raped and sold into sexual slavery by Isis fighters who captured them last August.

The role of British female jihadists in inciting terrorism in the UK has been uncovered by the ICSR which has identified a group of around 30 female Britons based in northern

A Moroccan man in France was stabbed 17 times in front of his wife at his own home in what is described as a “horrible Islamophobic attack”.

Europe is on high alert following anti-terror raids and arrests of suspected Islamist militants.

The UK terror threat is now classed as severe, so the Metropolitan Police appear to be taking no chances with the safety of the six-months pregnant Duchess of Cambridge.

Peter Bromhead's take on the Charlie Hebdo massacre.

Derided as gutless and indecisive two weeks ago, Francois Hollande has gained admiration for the sure-footed leadership he has shown during France's greatest terrorism crisis.

Facebook pages encouraging violence on behalf of Isis are among factors increasing NZ's official terrorism risk and leading to a recruitment drive for new spies.

'Je suis Aotearoa." It has a certain piquant charm and would get a great deal of public attention if it was chosen as the branding to unite New Zealanders of all hues, nationalities, races and....

A founder of Charlie Hebdo has accused its editor of “dragging the team” to their deaths by publishing provocative cartoons of the Prophet Mohamed.

Charlie Hebdo's cartoonist broke down as he explained why he drew Muhammad on the controversial front cover.

The US military's Central Command social media accounts are back online after apparently being hacked by Isis.

'You are a woman, we don't kill women.' A survivor of the Charlie Hebdo massacre recalls how she stared into the eyes of a gunman who'd shot her colleagues dead.

Russian President Vladimir Putin's new-found love of "free speech" was too much for surviving Hebdo cartoonist Bernard Holtrop to stomach, writes Brian Rudman.

From his hiding place, Lilian Lepere texted police vital information about Charlie Hedbo terrorists who were holed up in printers.

The hostage-taker who killed four people in a Paris supermarket siege was on a US terror watchlist.

Charlie Hebdo says it will "cede nothing" to terrorists - and has defiantly placed a new cartoon of the Prophet Muhammad on its cover.

The Pentagon has played down the hacking of the US Central Command Twitter and YouTube sites, saying it's 'annoying', but just a 'prank'.

New video footage has emerged which is believed to show the fugitive widow of one of the French gunmen at Istanbul Airport.

About 1.6m people are estimated to have marched in the centre of Paris. They marched "for the Republic", "against hatred" and "for history".