(Sydney Morning Herald) Australia will list white supremacist group The Base and all of Hezbollah as terrorist organisations, making it a criminal offence to be a member. Home Affairs Minister Karen Andrews described The Base, a group that began in the United […]
(Sydney Morning Herald) Intelligence officials have travelled to Syria in a secret operation to gather information about the Australian families of Islamic State fighters living in a refugee camp in the country’s north as the federal government weighs up a rescue mission. […]
(Sydney Morning Herald) Federal Parliament will need to sit in a locked-down Canberra over the next fortnight, with the government in a race against time to extend control orders on people considered a terrorist risk that will otherwise expire early next month. […]
(Sydney Morning Herald) Australia is one step closer to listing Hezbollah as a terrorist organisation after a bipartisan inquiry urged the federal government to move on the Lebanese militant group and political party. The powerful intelligence and security committee has recommended all […]
(Sydney Morning Herald) Police have raided homes in Sydney and Melbourne in an attempt to gather evidence against some of the 67 family members of Islamic State fighters living in a Syrian refugee camp. The Australian Federal Police has stepped up investigations […]
(Sydney Morning Herald) Two Australians in Syria have been stripped of their citizenship over links to Islamic State, sparking family concerns about the status of their young children. The stripping of the couple’s citizenship has been backdated to 2016 — before the […]
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