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Terrorism experts a speech from an Islamic State probably inspired Sajid and Naveed Akram.

The IS speech that ‘inspired’ the Bondi Beach shooting

Islamic State is resurgent and invoking conflict in the Middle East in “calls to arms” directed at home-grown jihadists.

  • Perry Duffin

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A file image of an Islamic State flag in Syria.

Melbourne teen arrested with Islamic State flag and terrorist manuals

The 17-year-old was charged days after a Sydney teenager faced court for allegedly plotting a terror attack.

  • Angus Delaney
Illustration by Simon Letch

Matt Canavan has done in an hour what Angus Taylor failed to do in a month

Australia - the complacent country - is receiving a wake-up call on race, resilience and energy.

  • Peter Hartcher
Families are escorted away from the scene of the attack at Temple Israel Synagogue in the US state of Michigan.

Man dead after ramming car into Detroit synagogue hosting preschoolers

Meanwhile, a shooting at a university campus in Virginia is being treated as an act of terrorism, with the assailant having been previously jailed for supporting Islamic State.

  • Michael Koziol
Anthony Albanese says “Well, we are doing nothing to repatriate or to assist these people. I think it’s unfortunate that children are caught up in this”.

Suddenly, Albo’s a hard-nosed patriot (with an acute scent for votes)

Lo and behold, the PM doesn’t want the ISIS brides or their children to return to Australia. Labor’s U-turn is highly suspect.

  • Parnell Palme McGuinness
Kirsty Rosse-Emile, pictured with son Yahya in 2019, is expected to eventually be resettled in Melbourne.

Too dangerous to return? What we know of the ISIS brides

Some call for the families to be rescued from the camps in Syria. Others, haunted by their own suffering at the hands of Islamic State, are afraid of their return.

  • Michael Bachelard and Anthony Segaert
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Australian girls in al-Roj camp on Wednesday.

ISIS brides prepared to go to jail to get their children to Australia

ASIO has cleared this cohort of security concerns but the government still insists it will not bring back anyone – women or children.

  • Michael Bachelard and Andrew Probyn
Aisiya, a nine-year-old Australian girl interned in al-Roj camp, Syria.

‘I saw houses for the first time’: Australia’s Syrian children tell us about their lives

After years in a wind-blown camp in north-eastern Syria, the girls say they just want to come back to this country.

  • Michael Bachelard and Mohammed Hassan
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese with Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke.

Sydney doctor’s campaign letter: re-electing Burke the ‘only hope’ of bringing ISIS brides home

In a letter published in the Sydney-based Middle East Times newspaper in April last year, Rifi urged voters in Burke’s electorate of Watson to reject a hardline pro-Palestinian independent campaign to unseat him.

  • Paul Sakkal and Michael Bachelard

If the ISIS women and children come home, Australia will be safer

I’ve been dealing with these mothers and children since 2015. Some of them have known nothing but the barbed-wire enclosure of the camps.

  • Jamal Rifi