The Latest Breaking News from IS

Australian women and children remain in Syrian camps, but the Victorian coalition has objected to their resettlement on security grounds.

Matthew Guy says allowing families of fighters to resettle from Syria could compromise the safety of Victorians

The first group of Australian women and children held in Syria is returning to Sydney after spending four years languishing in a detention camp.

Mohamed Ibrahim can barely bring himself to recall his run-in with so-called Islamic State fighters — he's terrified about the prospect of their wives returning to Australia.

Iran’s supreme leader and its president have tried to link the nationwide protests roiling the country to an Islamic State-claimed gun attack on a famous mosque that killed 15 people

Archaeologists in northern Iraq have unearthed 2,700-year-old rock carvings featuring war scenes and trees, dating back to the Assyrian Empire

The question of whether social media firms should be responsible for content recommended to users is set to be re-examined – and not before time

France has repatriated 55 people from camps in Syria holding family members of suspected Islamic State jihadists. It is the largest such repatriation in three months and comes a week after a European rights court condemned France for its refusal to return two women detained in Syria.

Afghanistan's Hazara community, a Shiite minority, is regularly targeted by the Afghan branch of the Islamic State (IS) group, which considers Hazaras as heretics. Dozens of people, mostly girls, were killed in an attack on an education centre in a Shiite neighbourhood of Kabul on September 30. Although the attack…