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.

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.

Terrorism is an affront to our freedom, human dignity and right to life.

Prime Minister John Key has laid out his Government' agenda for the next three years, with housing and the fight against terror groups at the top of the list.

Keith Locke writes: New Zealanders are right to be concerned about the rise of the Islamic State (Isis), but our best contribution would be to provide more humanitarian support.

PM John Key said New Zealand helping to train Iraqi troops was among the options the Government would consider when ruling on its contribution to the fight against Isis.

Thousands of NZers travelling to Australia could have "biometric data" such as facial recognition data, iris scans and fingerprints stored and shared.

When police pulled over Erol Incedal's car for what seemed like a routine traffic offence a year ago, it was a key moment in a case that would make British legal history.

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.

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 family caught up in Australia's biggest counter-terrorism operation is reportedly set to launch legal action, claiming to have been unfairly targeted.

New Zealand faces more security risks and has more of its people looking to fight overseas for militant groups than most people realise, Prime Minister John Key said yesterday as he signalled law....

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.