Tag: Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL)

The claim that the anti-terror raids, which saw the arrest of four men suspected of conspiring to blow up a plane, were rushed due to the threat of the UK issuing a travel warning about Australia have been rejected.

Australia's second biggest city has been highlighted in a new call to arms video by Islamic State.

Encrypted documents contained photos with the titles: "Make a Bomb in the Kitchen of your Mom", and "Pressure Cooker Backpack Bomb with Switch Detonator", the prosecution argued.

ISIS are a bunch of totally quackers duckheads, according to 4Chan users... and a meme is born.

The world’s marginalised have been taught that their lives matter less than others. We run the risk of entrenching a cycle of discrimination that works to further the radical political agendas of terrorist groups.

New research attempts to pinpoint where Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) Twitter users are.

WATCH: Waleed Aly's impassioned monologue on 'The Project', urging us not help Islamic State by turning on ourselves in hate, following the Paris attacks.

Tony Abbott unrepentant for saying Islamic State are worse than the Nazis, saying at least the Nazis “had a sufficient sense of shame to try to hide it”.

Australian border force and counter terrorism stopped seven suspected jihadists, allegedly on route to join ISIS, in their tracks at Sydney airport.

The British Foreign Office has listed Australia as a 'high' risk travel destination, indicating that terrorism attacks are considered to be likely.

The prime minister confirmed today that Islamic State recruits who are looking to return to Australia after fighting abroad will be "arrested, prosecuted and jailed". Could returning IS fighters assist with youth deradicalisation in Australia?

An Australian Twitter user and ISIS supporter, who encouraged the attack on the Prophet Mohammed cartoon contest in Garland, Texas has posted a guide to the Islamic State and threatened celebrated Australian cartoonist, Larry Pickering.

Australia needs to have uncomfortable conversations about the realities of Islamic State and their like.

Plans approved to send 300 Australian military personnel to train Iraqi forces in the fight against Islamic State.

Two men have been charged with planning an "imminent" terror act in Sydney. Police raided their house and seized an Islamic State Flag, a machete, a hunting knife and a video allegedly detailing their plans.

Australia’s prime minister says “the Middle-Eastern death cult had declared war on the world”.

Australian foreign minister, Julie Bishop, warns UN Security Council that tech savvy terrorists are a global threat.

British PM David Cameron has delivered a speech to Australia’s parliament, noting the two nations’ shared history and the need to defend shared principles, highlighting trade and the struggle against Islamic extremism.

Following APEC meeting with Tony Abbott, US president says he is asking all partner nations to review their commitment to the evolving campaign against Isis.

Controversial new Australian counter-terrorism legislation, including new offence of ‘advocating terrorism’, is a step closer to becoming law.

Abdullah Elmir, the Australian boy who featured in an Islamic State clip threatening Western nations, has appeared in another jihadist propaganda video.

Foreign minister Julie Bishop says shooting at Canada’s parliament has the hallmarks of an Islamic State terrorist attack, as security is beefed up at Parliament House in Canberra.

A 17-year-old Australian appears in latest Islamic State video, threatening to behead western leaders and fly ‘black flag’ over Washington, London and Canberra.

On paying for the war against Islamic State in Iraq, Australia's prime minister says, “We think we can afford it.”

RAAF planes will commence support operations over Iraq on Wednesday in the fight against Islamic State, with a final decision to join strike operations immanent.

Police are investigating the possibility that the 18 year old Melbourne man shot dead by police after he attacked them with a knife may have had accomplices.

Australia's prime minister delivers bellicose speech to United Nations Security Council as the country prepares to join military action against Islamic State militants in Iraq.

The prime minister says he would like to return to Arnhem Land, after send-off to Mid-East deployment, to fulfil his promise indigenous community.

In Australia's biggest ever counter-terrorism operation, police believe they have prevented a public beheading in Sydney.

Australian Defence ministry has issued a memo warning that Aussie troops run the risk of becoming victim of terror attacks on our own soil.

Prime minister says fighting for Islamic State (ISIS) is “against God” and joining them “may well become much more dangerous because of the presence of Australian forces.”

600 Australian personnel to join US military action against Islamic State in Iraq but PM insists it’s not like 2003.

After Britain upgraded its terror alert to severe earlier this week, Australians are waiting to see if the Federal Government will follow suite.

The Australian government says its defence forces are ready to act against the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria if requested by the US but that conditions must be met.

Prime Minister Tony Abbott acknowledged that Australia’s border security failed by letting another jihad suspect leave the country using his brother’s passport.

Responding to the humanitarian crisis in Iraq, Australia is opening its immigration gates to persecuted Iraqi nationals fearing for their lives.

Australian air force joins international mission to deliver food and water to people fleeing Islamic State militants in Iraq. “We in Australia try to do what we can to help,” PM tells service personnel.

Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott met with British Foreign Secretary Phillip Hammond to discuss the humanitarian crisis in Iraq and the situation in the Ukraine.

Boy with severed head image appears on Twitter account of Khaled Sharrouf, with the caption “That’s my boy!”

Islamic militant who allegedly employed Facebook to recruit support for Syrian and Iraqi conflict has been taken in to custody in the Philippines and will be deported to Australia.

New confidence for jihad as another Australian joins their ranks and their new “caliphate” prompts two notorious Australian Jihadist to issue threats to Australian troops via Twitter.

Jihadi recruitment video features a British national and another man believed to be a radical Australian.

Tony Abbott warns that nobody should underestimate the threat posed by terrorists bearing down on the Iraqi capital as it is revealed that a small contingent of Australian troops have already been sent to 'bolster security' at the embassy there.