Terrorism news headlines

Two tourists who were killed, along with their tour guide, in an attack near a Ugandan national park were a newlywed couple, the country's president said in a statement.

She's been hailed a hero in Israel and told US President Joe Biden about how she diverted militants.

Lebanese militant group Hezbollah says there will be "no red line" if the US directly intervenes in the war between Israel and Hamas.

TV footage and videos on social media showed an open area near a mosque strewn with the shoes of the dead and wounded.

The number of New York City Fire Department first responders who have died from 9/11-related illnesses now matches the number who lost their lives on that fateful day.

It all started Justin Trudeau claimed he has credible information linking India to the killing of a prominent Sikh leader.

Canada has expelled an Indian government over alleged involvement in the death.

Now-retired New South Wales police officer Patrick Stafford had just begun counter-terrorism training with the New York Police Department on September 11, 2001.

A total of 2977 people were killed after hijackers took control of four US commercial airplanes and crashed them into multiple targets.

It's been 22 years since the attacks, but roughly 40 per cent of the victims remain unidentified.

Khalife was caught by a counter-terrorism officer who pulled the fugitive from a bicycle in the Chiswick area of west London, where search efforts were refocused earlier in the day, the force said.

The bold jail break has prompted a nationwide search involving dozens of police and amped up security at ports.

A national manhunt has been launched for Daniel Abed Khalife who was awaiting trial for terror offences.

Travellers to the country have been urged to exercise a high degree of caution.

The head of the National Police Agency described the attack as "virtually an act of terrorism".

The former rap artist had been detained at Puerto III prison in the southern Spanish city of El Puerto de Santamaría.

Two men who planned a terror attack targeting a mosque in Sydney's west will spend less time in prison following a successful appeal against their 20-year sentences.

Simon William Fleming was dressed in black combat fatigues, armed with a rifle and a gel blaster, pretending a silver briefcase was a bomb.

He was seized in West Africa by al-Qaeda-affiliated militants in 2016.

The US Supreme Court handed Silicon Valley a massive victory on Thursday as it protected online platforms from two lawsuits that legal experts had warned could have upended the internet.

A man allegedly held hostage in a dive shop by a right-wing terrorist has been commended for the calm, kind way he handled the tense situation.

The Kremlin decried the alleged attack attempt as a "terrorist act" and said Vladimir Putin was unharmed.

Turkish forces have killed the leader of terror group ISIS, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has claimed.

Australia's domestic spy agency says a proposal to outlaw the display of Nazi iconography could help disrupt extremist recruitment.

The Islamic State terrorist plotted the 2021 attack that killed 13 US troops and about 170 Afghans during the chaotic American withdrawal from Afghanistan.

A well-known Russian military blogger was killed in an explosion at a cafe in St Petersburg on Sunday, officials said, in what appeared to be an audacious attack on a high-profile pro-Kremlin figure.

Out of nowhere, officials announced he and another captive had been taken on a special flight.

The convicted terrorist killed eight people when he mowed down people in a truck in October 2017.

A lawyer representing 11 of the bereaved families said the report was a "devastating conclusion for us".

Queensland Police believe the the Wieambilla terrorists were believers of an extremist Christian ideology known as premillennialism.

A suicide bomber detonated explosives during crowded prayers at a mosque inside a police compound in Pakistan on Monday, causing the roof to cave in.

George Santos was identified by a longtime Brazilian drag performer who posted a picture of herself with another person

A man has been charged after uranium-tainted cargo was discovered at Heathrow Airport in London.

The NSW widow of an Islamic State fighter has been charged for allegedly willingly travelling to IS-controlled parts of Syria in 2014 to join her husband.

Pakistan deployed police and troops to the area after the takeover.

The officer who killed the Lindt Cafe terrorist says he "locked eyes" with the gunman in the moments before he shot him to end the siege.

A French court has convicted eight people charged in connection with a truck attack by an Islamic State sympathiser that killed 86 people celebrating Bastille Day.

Umar Patek, who was paroled last week after serving about half of his original 20-year prison sentence for making the explosives used in the 2002 Bali bombings has apologised to victims' families.

Thousands of police officers carried out raids across much of Germany against suspected far-right extremists.

Umar Patek, 52, was sentenced to 20 years in prison in Indonesia for his role in the double suicide bombings in Kuta.

A $1 million reward is on offer for information leading to the conviction of people responsible for the 1982 bombings of the Israeli Consulate and the Hakoah Club in Sydney.

A Melbourne man accused of being an Islamic State terrorist was extradited to Victoria today and charged with six terrorism offences.

He's been described as the "most important and the most dangerous" Australian member of the terrorist cell.

Brenton Tarrant is appealing his conviction and sentence over the Christchurch massacre.

ISIS has acknowledged the death of its leader Abu al-Hasan al-Hashmi al-Qurayshi and confirmed his successor.

Payton Gendron, who was handcuffed and wore an orange jumpsuit, licked and clenched his lips as he pleaded guilty.

ASIO Director General Mike Burgess said the decision to drop the threat level was not made casually.

Security limits on liquids and laptops in airport hand luggage could be axed in the UK by 2024 with the rollout of improved scanning technology.

The tattoo on the side of his head refers to a "racial holy war". He's an alleged neo-Nazi, now accused of targeting police officers.

Neil Prakash has been detained in Turkey for the past six years but it is believed he will soon be extradited to stand trial in Australia.