Indonesian authorities trying to trace two commercial pilots believed to support Isis (Islamic State) say Australian Federal Police intelligence on the men wasn't shared with them.

After last month's terror attack at a beach resort in the coastal city of Sousse, the Tunisian Government has authorised plans to build a 167km barrier to secure its border with Libya.

Nicknaming Isis (Islamic State) terrorist Mohammed Emwazi "Jihadi John" is an insult to the memory of John Lennon, Yoko Ono has said.

Survivors of the Tunisian terror attack have questioned the absence of armed security after it emerged that a suicide bomber had blown himself up at the same resort.

Tunisian Prime Minister Habib Essid has told the BBC that police took too long to react to last week's jihadist attack that killed 38 people, mostly Britons.

Australia, France and Britain are among more than 30 countries around the world where the threat of terrorism is "high", according to the UK Foreign Office.

Jihadists warned "Christians" to avoid Tunisia for their summer holidays seven weeks before last weekend's attack, one of several warning signs missed.

Extraordinary accounts have emerged, including the story of a man who helped tourists get to a boat and chased the gunman down the beach.

The young man who slaughtered a group of unsuspecting, sunbathing tourists on a Tunisian beach was just an all too typical youth from an unremarkable background.

In a defiant speech, the public broadcaster's managing director, Mark Scott, said the ABC was not an official mouthpiece and had a duty to air a diversity of views.

Legislation stripping terrorists with dual nationality of their Australian citizenship will be introduced into Parliament today.

Two of Australia's most notorious terrorists have been killed while fighting with Islamic State (Isis) in the Middle East, according to reports.

The CIA did not know in advance that al-Qaeda's leader in Yemen was among the suspected militants targeted in a lethal drone strike last week, according to United States officials who said that the....

Al-Qaeda has confirmed that Nasir al-Wuhayshi, its No 2 figure and leader of its powerful Yemeni affiliate, has been killed in a United States strike.

The Islamic State has been making appeals online, calling for supporters to make donations using the online current Bitcoin.

The elite Seal Team Six fighting force which killed Osama bin Laden has warped and bloated into an unaccountable organisation which targets low-level militants and "street thugs", according to a new account of the secretive unit.

Lindt cafe gunman Man Haron Monis craved attention and wanted to be "a hero in his own story". He drove luxury cars with personalised plates and wore a 1930s gangster-style cream striped suit.

John Keys says NZ Defence Force chiefs have not shared the same concerns as US leaders about willingness of Iraqi troops to fight the Islamic State.

Eye-witnesses say streets of Palmyra are strewn with hundreds of bodies – the latest victims of terrorists's savagery.

Saudi Arabia has identified the suicide bomber who killed 21 worshippers at a mosque for the minority Shiite community and confirmed his link to the Islamic State group.

Ten things we've learned from the documents recovered from the raid on Osama bin Laden's compound.

London-based former senior officer in the Pakistan Army accused of being a supergrass who sold the secret location of Osama bin Laden to the CIA.

Joanna Norris is chair of the New Zealand Media Freedom Committee and editor of the Press. The Canon Media Awards to be held on Friday celebrate media freedom.

A ginger-haired fanatic wanted to kill Prince Charles in the hope that redhead Prince Harry would become king, a UK court has heard.

The Obama Administration has rubbished claims that its account of the 2011 raid which killed Osama bin Laden was fabricated, describing allegations that Pakistan co-operated with the US to kill the....

Australian police have urged parents to keep a closer eye on their children and monitor social media activity, after foiling yet another alleged teenage terror plot.

A 17-year-old has been charged with preparing for a terrorism act after police swooped to foil a reported plan to explode bombs on Mother's Day in the heart of Melbourne.

A bitter row has erupted among top writers over the decision to award a top prize for freedom to Charlie Hebdo.

The security Jeremiahs will be most put out. Not one sword-wielding ninja, or explosive-belted suicide bomber, shattered the peace of Anzac Day commemorations. Anywhere.

A Kiwi jihadist who claims to be fighting in Syria with the Islamic State has called for terror attacks in New Zealand.