An al-Qaeda "foot soldier" killed in a drone strike in Yemen had lived in New Zealand for two years until he fled from the authorities.

Parents of 230 girls abducted from their boarding school by Nigerian Islamists have had to call off the search for their daughters because of a lack of police back-up.

A radical Islamic cleric standing trial in New York on global terrorism charges will come face-to-face with a NZ woman caught in a terrifying kidnapping decades ago.

A suspect is in custody after police had to blow up two black backpacks dumped at the finish line of the Boston Marathon.

A 14-year-old Dutch girl who sent a terror threat to American Airlines as a Twitter “joke” has been arrested by police in Rotterdam.

Saudi Arabia has introduced a series of new laws which define atheists as terrorists, according to a report from Human Rights Watch.

Osama Bin Laden's son-in-law has been found guilty by a New York jury of conspiring to kill Americans in the failed "shoe bomb" plot.

Aid worker Nicola Rounce - a project manager who has lived in some of the world's most dangerous places - has escaped a murderous attack in Afghanistan.

In Richard Jackson's book about a terrorist, sections of text are covered by heavy black lines.

This week the agonies of Syria and much of the Mid-East came sharply home to Oz, where the reps of 60 countries met in Sydney for Interpol's inaugural global security and counter-terrorism convention.

An Islamic militant group says it was behind the Volgograd bombings that killed 34 people - and they'll give tourists at Sochi for the Olympics 'a present, too'.

A young girl found wearing a suicide vest in Afghanistan has spoken about how her family "treated her like a slave" and tried to make her blow up a police checkpoint.

Details from an extraordinary exchange of letters between a care worker from Nottingham and the alleged architect of the 9/11 attacks can be revealed today.

A 10-year-old Afghan girl has been apprehended while trying to carry out a suicide bombing attack against local police.

A man who received serious shrapnel wounds in the Boston bombing is set to marry the nurse who helped him through his recovery.

Two men have been arrested in Sydney on charges under Australia's foreign incursion laws that forbid citizens fighting alongside armed rebel groups.

A US court says negligence was not to blame for a third World Trade Center tower collapse on September 11, absolving a developer of the building's destruction.

A UK terror suspect is on the run in Britain after he escaped surveillance by putting on women's clothes at a London mosque.

'It was an execution.' Questions remain about the deaths of two veteran French journalists - including how such an attack was carried out near a UN base.

The British terror suspect Samantha Lewthwaite wrote a poem telling of her "love" for Osama bin Laden, files found on her laptop have shown.

The family of Abu Anas al-Libi, the al-Qaeda suspect seized by American forces in Libya, claimed yesterday that he was innocent and had been working in a pizza restaurant.

Al-Shabaab is deriving funds for its terror campaigns from elephant poaching in Kenya and elsewhere, activists and conservationists claim.

British MPs are to question the Home Secretary, Theresa May, over why one of the world's most wanted al-Qaeda terror suspects.