Tag: ISIS
A View From Afar: Could Auckland’s LynnMall stabbing attack have been...
Host Selwyn Manning with security analyst Dr Paul Buchanan on this week's A View From Afar podcast. Video: EveningReport.nz on YouTube
A VIEW FROM AFAR: Podcast...
NZ mall stabbings a terrorist attack by ‘lone wolf’, says PM...
RNZ News
New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern says an attack at Auckland's New Lynn Countdown supermarket today was a terrorist attack carried out by...
Ardern slams Australia for dumping over Turkey ‘terrorist’ detainees
By RNZ News
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has lashed out at Australia for dumping responsibility for a woman and two young children detained at the...
Auckland Sri Lankan community holds vigil for terror bomb victims, survivors
Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk
About 60 people from the Sri Lankan community and human rights advocates gathered in Auckland's Aotea Square today in a solidarity...
What is JAD? Indonesian terror group behind Surabaya church bombings
A Jakarta Post video collage of images from the bomb attack has been reported at Surabaya police headquarters on Sunday just hours after bomb...
Indonesia beefs up anti-terror police unit to combat ‘extremist’ challenge
Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk
Indonesia is beefing up its elite Detachment 88 (Densus 88) unit in light of increased threats from local and international terror...
Urban battle for Marawi finally over – 1000 dead, says Philippines
Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk
The five-month battle against terrorists in the southern Marawi City on Mindanao has ended, Philippine Defence Secretary Delfin Lorenzana announced today.
"After...
‘This isn’t Aleppo. This is Marawi City’ – urban war in...
Aerial shot from a drone of Banggolo and Bubonga barangays in Marawi City taken on 8 June 2017 shows the destruction and fire from...
Indonesia mobilises warships, intelligence forces to ‘block’ IS
Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk
The Indonesian Military (TNI) has begun mobilising its forces -- including warships and intelligence operations -- in northern parts of Indonesia...
Marawi retrieves bodies on streets amid Philippines air strikes
As Ramadan begins, Carmela Fonbuena reports on the continuing clashes in Marawi City. Video: Rappler
By Carmela Fonbuena in Marawi City, Philippines
Philippines police have entered...
‘Respect human rights’ warning from Amnesty over Philippines martial law
Pacific Media Centre News Desk
The Philippines must ensure that human rights are respected and protected, following the President Rodrigo Duterte's declaration of martial law...
Philippines troops rescue 78 hostages from terrorists in Marawi hospital
Carmela Fonbuena files this a video report from Mindanao, Philippines. Video: Rappler
By Carmela Fonbuena in Iligan City, Mindanao
About 78 civilians held captive by the...
CPJ condemns attack on Afghan state television — at least 6...
Al Jazeera's report on the attack on the National Radio Television of Afghanistan office in Jalalabad.
The Committee to Protect Journalists has strongly condemned the...
How ISIS extremist media have hijacked religion and language
By Dr Alan Knight in Sydney
Moderate Muslims were losing the media war with ISIS, according to leading Turkish journalist, Kerim Balci.
”Authentic” Muslims were losing...
Home-grown Indonesian terrorists ‘used low-tech weapons’
Report from Agence France-Presse in Jakarta
Although Thursday's Jakarta attacks have been blamed on militants recruited by the Islamic State in Syria, with the international...