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In 2014, the Islamic State (IS) terrorist group declared a caliphate, a form of Islamic government headed by a caliph, considered to be a successor to the prophet Muhammad. This correlated with a global campaign of terror and 53,000 foreigners from 80 countries travelling to support IS (sometimes also referred…

More Australians linked to the Islamic State are expected return home as the federal police monitor two women and six children who recently arrived.

Liberal rebel Andrew Hastie has quit the shadow cabinet, declaring he could not serve there because Sussan Ley had told him he would have no role in formulating the opposition’s immigration policy.

The Home Affairs minister, Tony Burke, revealed late last week he had visited Nauru in August and signed a memorandum of understanding with its government.

The Albanese government’s deal with Nauru to take up to 280 former immigration detainees again shows both sides of politics will resort to drastic and expensive actions when faced with intractable issues around illegal non-citizens.

Australia's human rights watchdog is alarmed proposed changes to migration rules would stop natural justice applying to foreign criminals facing deportation.

Groups and communities will hold their own protests in response to planned anti-immigration rallies whose premise has been flatly rejected by political leaders.

If the intelligence community had its Logies, ASIO chief Mike Burgess would be chasing gold this week.

Israel's prime minister has launched another verbal salvo against Anthony Albanese over his handling of the situation in the Middle East as calls grow for calm.

The Australian government has cancelled the visa of Israeli politician Simcha Rothman, setting off a diplomatic falling out that’s escalated over the course of the week.

Australia’s Home Affairs minister says ‘strength is not measured by how many people you can blow up’.