Suicide attacks are much more common in the Middle East, the Afghanistan-Pakistan region and Africa

The Philippines is vowing "higher security" for world leaders at an economic summit in Manila next week following the Paris terror attacks.

President Francois Hollande says France will be "merciless" against those behind the deadliest attacks in the country in decades.

The co-ordinated acts of murder on this scale are unprecedented and the night of Nov 13, 2015 will toll just as significantly in the years to come.

The Paris attacks have outraged the world. But, sadly, they will not have surprised French authorities.

Daniel Psenny first thought the shots he heard came from the cop movie playing on his television. Soon after, he realised they came from the Bataclan concert hall.

Despite reports the Islamic State group has claimed responsibility for the attacks, there is no definitive proof as of yet.

A 19-year-old man has been arrested by University of Missouri police for posting threats to the racially roiled campus on social media,.

Three major airlines announced yesterday that they would no longer fly over the Sinai Peninsula after a Russian passenger plane crashed in the area.

Veteran diplomat Carl Worker has been appointed the role which was created late last year after NZ confirmed plans to send troops to Iraq.

A British man held in Guantanamo Bay has given an account of his 14-year ordeal and made a number of shocking claims.

The devastated mother of a Kiwi basketballer who narrowly survived yesterday's college massacre is rushing to be with her son.

Taliban insurgents have seized control of key facilities across a major city in northern Afghanistan, driving back stunned security forces in a multi-pronged attack.

Prime Minister says New Zealand will not rush to sign up to coalition against Islamic State proposed by Russian's President Vladimir Putin.

Nothing less than a multifaceted strategy is required to address both the political causes and the military symptoms of the rise of Isis, writes Robert Patman.

Jihadists are defecting from Isis after their "Islamist utopia" of luxury cars and "heroism" never materialised.

Britain should "crush" Isil by taking part in military action in Syria, a former Archbishop of Canterbury suggests today amid mounting calls for further air strikes.

The clandestine programme represents a significant escalation of the CIA's involvement in the war in Syria, enlisting the agency's powerful Counterterrorism Centre.

Thailand's junta is under scrutiny after mistakenly showing an unrelated picture of a suicide vest during a nationally televised broadcast announcing the arrest of a foreign man in connection with....

Barefoot, blindfolded and dressed only in blue hospital pyjamas, the Moroccan gunman accused of attacking passengers on a train from Amsterdam to Paris was led into a court building in the French....

Police insist they would rather risk a prosecution failing than risk members of the community being hurt or killed after a 18-year-old from Melbourne was cleared of a terror charge.

Security was stepped up on major European rail services as fears of "blowback" attacks by jihadis returning from Syria escalated after a gunman known to the intelligence agencies opened fire on a high-speed train bound for Paris.

New footage is believed to show the British Isis killer nicknamed 'Jihadi John' unmasked for the first time in Syria.

Several foreigners are believed to be among a network of at least 10 people involved in the Bangkok shrine bombing, according to Thailand's police chief.

Al-Qaeda has released a message, purportedly from Osama bin Laden's son Hamza, calling for attacks on London and other western cities.

German troops involved in a coalition training mission in Iraq have reported that Isis (Islamic State) fighters have used chemical weapons on a Kurdish militia.