The Government's controversial "foreign fighters" legislation allowing the recall of suspected New Zealand jihadists' passports and warrantless surveillance is set to pass its first reading.

The British Isis killer known as "Jihadi John" may have a body double, according to a new video analysis.

Urgent law changes being introduced to combat the threat of "foreign fighters" will be in place until 2018, as opponents question their 'short-term' nature.

Urgent changes to the law introduced to combat the threat of "foreign fighters" had been flagged by the Prime Minister as for short-term only.

We've had reports of abuse by Kiwis who think all Muslims are terrorists. I say to those responsible: when you scream at them as you drive by, you are terrifying them.

Much has changed in Iraq and Syria in the six weeks since the last Western hostage, Alan Henning, was beheaded.

The Islamic State militant known as Jihadi John has threatened to bring slaughter to the streets of Britain and the West in a new video announcing the murder of an American aid worker.

UK has received reports that notorious terrorist accused of killing two British hostages has been injured in an airstrike.

Four brothers slipped out of Australia last week to join the fight with Islamic State (Isis) in Syria.

John Key was playing to a vital international audience when he said that New Zealand has an opportunity to make sure the United Nations Security Council lifts its game.

Rob O'Neill under fire from fellow SEALs after he claimed he was the shooter who put three bullets into Osama bin Laden's head.

Aviation Security staff are on heightened alert following the raised terror threat level and on the lookout for a range of new risks.

Defence Minister Gerry Brownlee says any deployment of soldiers to train the Iraqi Army will not be the same as Afghanistan.

The Government has taken its time to decide New Zealand will not join Western allies in military action against the terrorist group that has taken over part of Iraq and Syria.

John Key has promised the SIS will get more powers and staff to respond rapidly to potential threats by NZ-based supporters of Islamic State.

The Cricket World Cup and the 100th anniversary of the Gallipoli landings are being treated as potential terror targets by New Zealand and Australian Governments.

A video has emerged purportedly showing Isis fighters haggling over the price of captured Yazidi women during a "slave market day".

John Key says he wants anti-terror law changes to be in place before the Cricket World Cup as Australia issues Gallipoli travel warning.

If there's one thing that irks Rebecca Kitteridge, it is being referred to as the new head of the SIS spy agency.

Iraqi forces have driven militants from Jurf Al-Sakhar, but all that’s left is a shell. The town is now emptied of its 80,000 residents, and building after building has been destroyed.

The shooter who rampaged through Canada’s parliament took a video of himself just before the attack and was inspired by ideological and political motives, police say.

It is arguably the greatest security challenge of the modern age - how to prevent "lone wolf" fanatics from committing devastating acts of terrorism.

International security experts have ordered NZ cricket bosses to beef up security ahead of next year's World Cup.

Muslim community groups have condemned threats made by a teenage jihadist who ran away from his family in Australia to join the Islamic State (Isis) terror group in Syria.

If there was anyone left who thought only troubled, fractured societies were subject to terrorism, the wave of apparently jihadist attacks across a country that is a byword for laid-back prosperity will surely have disabused them.

A New Zealander in Ottawa was just a block away from the gunman who murdered a soldier and attacked Parliament in shootings that traumatised Canada's capital yesterday.

Canadian politicians have praised the quick thinking of a security chief, believed to have shot the gunman who opened fire in Ottawa's Parliament today.

The New Zealand High Commission's building in Canada is in lock-down following a deadly shooting a couple of streets away in Ottawa this morning.