The latest news and comment on the Islamic State militant group
August 2024
Third teenager arrested over foiled Taylor Swift concert attack in Vienna
Iraqi man, 18, said to be an associate of main 19-year-old suspect in terror plot that has led to cancellation of shows
Taylor Swift concert plot: Austrian police find bomb chemicals in suspect’s home
Austrian, 19, arrested alongside 17-year-old for allegedly planning Islamist attack at Vienna venue
Judges have refused to save Shamima Begum. Labour should bring her back to the UK to face justice
Maya Foa
Shamima Begum: supreme court refuses to hear UK citizenship appeal
Iraq’s Yazidis gather to remember the dead and missing, 10 years on from Islamic State genocide
July 2024
Girls as young as nine gang-raped by paramilitaries in Sudan – report
Three suspected IS members charged in Belgium over terrorism plot
Gaza conflict could fuel IS and al-Qaida revival, security experts warn
Widow of Isis leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi given death sentence by Iraqi court
June 2024
Teen found guilty of being a terrorist organisation member released on probation in Queensland
Dagestan attack highlights Russia’s vulnerability at home amid Ukraine war
Yazidi survivors of Sinjar massacre alarmed by Iraq’s move to close camps
Government could repatriate Australian women and children from Syrian detention camps if it had ‘political will’, court says
Russian special forces kill Islamic State-linked hostage-takers
Rights and freedom
Battlefield deaths from global conflicts hit 30-year high, study finds
May 2024
‘It is worse now’: The Bookseller of Kabul author Åsne Seierstad on returning to Afghanistan 20 years on
The Norwegian writer on meeting the Taliban, her fears for girls’ education, and the legal battle that ensued after the publication of her bestselling book
‘We were fish in a barrel’: Australian tourist describes deadly Islamic State attack in Afghanistan
Joe McDowell, 38, from Perth, was visiting Bamiyan when he was shot by a gunman who killed three Spaniards and three Afghans
Islamic State claims responsibility for deadly tourist attack in Afghanistan
Alleged Islamic State terrorist Neil Prakash has moderated his views, federal police investigator says
Accused Islamic State terrorist Neil Prakash ‘enticed’ by sermon at Melbourne mosque, court told