Displaying your defeated enemy's heads on poles is a time-honoured New Zealand military practice.

An international security expert says the terrorist website fiasco shows New Zealand is not checking website details registered here closely enough.

A suspected Islamic State website shut down by Iceland authorities was registered to a private box in an upmarket Auckland suburb.

Two teenagers who became poster girls for the jihad in Syria are now desperate to come home after becoming disillusioned with life in the war-torn country.

Police in London have arrested a fifth British man on suspicion of Islamist-linked terrorism, after saying earlier they had managed to avert a "significant plot".

Isis is close to capturing the Syrian Kurdish town of Kobane, just a short distance from the Turkish border, after a three-week siege in which US air strikes turned out to be ineffective in preventing the militants from winning an important victory.

A Melbourne man arrested in counter-terrorism raids had provided funds to a US citizen fighting in Syria and was about to transfer further funds, police allege.

The leader of al-Qaida's Syria affiliate has vowed that his group would "use all possible means" to fight back against airstrikes by the U.S.-led coalition.

The Prime Minister says he is seriously concerned about New Zealanders joining the terrorist group Islamic State.

The US bombed Islamic State-controlled oil refineries in Syria as President Barack Obama recruited more allies to fight the jihadist “network of death”.

A mystery woman has covertly provided the world with a rare glimpse of life in the heartland of the Islamic State using a camera concealed beneath her niqab.

A second teenager has been charged after death threats were allegedly screamed at Christians outside a school in Sydney, while an Islamic State flag was brandished.

A teen who stabbed two officers in Melbourne before he was shot dead had his passport cancelled last week, and was seen with an Isis flag at a shopping centre.

A mother has been spat on, a baby’s pram kicked, a pig’s head has been impaled on a cross and mosques vandalised, in a worrying escalation of attacks against Australian Muslims.

The teen terror suspect who was shot after stabbing two police officers has been named.

Controversial senator equates sharia law with acts of terrorism in a much-criticised television interview.

A lockdown of the ministerial wing of Parliament House has been ordered in Canberra following intelligence concerns the building may be a terrorist target.

Australians woke today with a sobering realisation of how close we came to one or more of our own, on our soil, being abducted, tortured and beheaded.

Security at Australia's Parliament is being ramped up amid reports of a planned terrorist attack, just a day after a beheading plot was thwarted by police raids.

Sydney man arrested in Australia's largest counterterrorism operation allegedly conspired with Australia's most senior Islamist militant to kill random passerby.

Welfare payments will be stripped from people in Australia suspected of supporting terrorism.

Few experts disagree with David Cameron and Barack Obama's assertion that by paying ransoms Western governments end up bankrolling the very terrorism groups they seek to combat.

The Prince of Wales has written an impassioned letter to Christians in Iraq speaking of his "heartbreak" at their suffering at the hands of Jihadists.