Tag: Islamic State
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...
Migrant Action condemns NZ nation-building course idea as ‘discriminating’
Asia Pacific Report newsdesk
The Migrant Action Trust has condemned a proposal by a diversity academic calling for a New Zealand nation-building course before people...
Missed opportunities to deradicalise attacker in NZ tragedy, says criminologist
By Katie Todd, RNZ News reporter
An Australian criminologist who deemed the New Zealand shopping mall attacker "low risk" in 2018 believes there were missed...
Auckland terrorist’s name suppression revoked, but remains secret for now
By Sarah Robson, RNZ News Reporter
Name suppression for the man responsible for yesterday's New Zealand terror attack at a west Auckland supermarket has been...
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...
Laying charges against Suhayra Aden would be unfair, says security expert
RNZ News
A counter-terrorism expert says there is no reason to lay charges against a New Zealand-born woman linked to the Islamic State.
Suhayra Aden and...
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...
Terror in Indonesia – the threat posed by returning Islamic State...
By Jewel Topsfield of The Sydney Morning Herald in Jakarta
Heru Kurnia, an Indonesian who joined Islamic State in Syria, is describing watching children kick...
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...
‘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...
Arun Kundnani: The West’s Islamophobia is only helping the ‘Islamic State’
As Easter is celebrated by Christians across the world this weekend, Arun Kundnani reflects on the "global war on terror", the Brussels outrage, the...
Kurdish anti-ISIS hacker attacks Fiji defence websites
By Allison Penjueli of Newswire Fiji
Websites belonging to the Republic of Fiji Military Force (RFMF), Fiji Police Force and the Immigration Department were today...
Wanted: 2000 more spies in Indonesia, says BIN chief
Indonesia's National Intelligence Agency (BIN) plans to spend Rp700 billion (US$54 million) to recruit more agents in response to concerns over personnel constraints, a...
Indonesian anti-terror law change ‘may override human rights’
By Edo Karensa in Jakarta
International human rights advocacy group Human Rights Watch (HRW) has called on Indonesia's House of Representatives to reject a draft...