PM John Key said New Zealand helping to train Iraqi troops was among the options the Government would consider when ruling on its contribution to the fight against Isis.

Thousands of NZers travelling to Australia could have "biometric data" such as facial recognition data, iris scans and fingerprints stored and shared.

When police pulled over Erol Incedal's car for what seemed like a routine traffic offence a year ago, it was a key moment in a case that would make British legal history.

An international security expert says the terrorist website fiasco shows New Zealand is not checking website details registered here closely enough.

Displaying your defeated enemy's heads on poles is a time-honoured New Zealand military practice.

A suspected Islamic State website shut down by Iceland authorities was registered to a private box in an upmarket Auckland suburb.

Two teenagers who became poster girls for the jihad in Syria are now desperate to come home after becoming disillusioned with life in the war-torn country.

Isis is close to capturing the Syrian Kurdish town of Kobane, just a short distance from the Turkish border, after a three-week siege in which US air strikes turned out to be ineffective in preventing the militants from winning an important victory.

A family caught up in Australia's biggest counter-terrorism operation is reportedly set to launch legal action, claiming to have been unfairly targeted.

New Zealand faces more security risks and has more of its people looking to fight overseas for militant groups than most people realise, Prime Minister John Key said yesterday as he signalled law....

A Melbourne man arrested in counter-terrorism raids had provided funds to a US citizen fighting in Syria and was about to transfer further funds, police allege.

The leader of al-Qaida's Syria affiliate has vowed that his group would "use all possible means" to fight back against airstrikes by the U.S.-led coalition.

The Prime Minister says he is seriously concerned about New Zealanders joining the terrorist group Islamic State.

The US bombed Islamic State-controlled oil refineries in Syria as President Barack Obama recruited more allies to fight the jihadist “network of death”.

A mystery woman has covertly provided the world with a rare glimpse of life in the heartland of the Islamic State using a camera concealed beneath her niqab.

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.

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.

Australians woke today with a sobering realisation of how close we came to one or more of our own, on our soil, being abducted, tortured and beheaded.

Security at Australia's Parliament is being ramped up amid reports of a planned terrorist attack, just a day after a beheading plot was thwarted by police raids.

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.