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.

As New Zealand's election campaign entered its final days, Australians absorbed news that 800 police had swooped on suspected jihadist sympathisers in Sydney and Queensland to foil an atrocity.

Australians will have to put up with inconvenience and tougher security for "some time to come" as the world tackles terrorism, Prime Minister Tony Abbott has warned.

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.

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.

An Iraqi soldier survived a mass execution carried out by Islamic State militants (Isis) by dropping to the floor and pretending to be dead.

A Briton will be the next hostage murdered by Islamist terrorists, the British extremist known as "Jihadi John" threatened in a beheading video released yesterday.

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.

The Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (Isis) has declared the areas it occupies in Iraq and Syria as a new Islamic state.

Australia is working on tough measures to keep Islamic militants out of the country including the possible stripping of citizenship from nationals who fight with extremists in the Middle East.

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.