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.

Britain faces the "greatest and deepest" terror threat in the country's history, Prime Minister David Cameron warned yesterday as he pledged emergency measures to tackle extremists.

Obama undeterred as air strikes continue even though jihadists say they will execute more US journalists

David Cameron has said that it is "increasingly likely" that a British jihadist beheaded American journalist James Foley

A plan to blow up a plane on Christmas Day in 2009 failed because the explosives became 'degraded' after he wore the same pair of underpants for two weeks.

Kiwis flying from New Zealand to the United States will not be required to undergo strict new security measures being introduced for uncharged mobile phones and laptops.

Twin sisters have fled their UK home in the middle of the night and flown to Istanbul to join ISIS fighters in Syria, it's feared.

United States authorities fear a new threat to planes from terrorists with explosives that evade detection and have tightened security.

A UK woman dubbed the "Angel of Woolwich" for confronting the killers of soldier Lee Rigby has been detained under the Mental Health Act.

Islamists leading the jihadist advance in Iraq are using the World Cup to seek recruits and spread their propaganda via social media, according to reports.

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The Isis fighters advancing across Iraq are also plotting British attacks, Prime Minister David Cameron said yesterday.

Tony Blair said Britain needed to take action in Iraq and Syria to stop a 'total disaster' that could see jihadist fighters returning to strike in their own country.

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani has said that the country is ready to assist Iraq in its battle against extremist Sunni Islamists.

Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl, the US soldier held captive by the Taliban for almost five years, isn't emotionally prepared to reunite with his family.

The families of those killed in the September 11 terrorist attacks have expressed dismay at tacky souvenirs on sale at the newly opened Ground Zero memorial museum.

Armed men in Nigeria have abducted eight girls, as the government continued to struggle to find 276 schoolgirls kidnapped three weeks ago in the same region.

Islamist military group Boko Haram has claimed responsibility for the mass abduction of 300 Nigerian schoolgirls. But who is in this group, and what do they really want?

A New Zealander killed in a drone strike in Yemen has been named as Daryl Jones by an Australian newspaper.

The star witness in the trial of a radical Islamic cleric has described how he received a hug from Osama bin Laden after he was given instructions for a "shoe bomb" plot.