Tag Archives: australia

Terrorists attack Hanukkah lighting ceremony in Australia, kill at least 16

| December 14, 2025

Two gunmen carried out an antisemitic terrorist attack on a Hanukkah celebration at Sydney’s Bondi Beach, killing at least 16 people and wounding dozens before one attacker was killed and the other arrested. Australian authorities, who said one suspect was previously known to the Australian Security Intelligence Organization, are investigating possible foreign links as Israel separately examines whether Iran or its proxies played a role amid warnings about Iranian-backed threats to Jewish communities abroad.

Australia disrupts ‘sophisticated’ plot directed by the Islamic State

| August 4, 2017

Australian authorities say they broke up an especially “sophisticated” Islamic State plot in late July. The so-called caliphate wanted to bring down an airliner using an improvised explosive device (IED). The Islamic State even shipped the IED components to the suspects in Australia. The accused men were also allegedly experimenting with a bomb intended to disperse hydrogen sulfide.

Australia

| January 16, 2015

Malaysian man who ‘used Australia as step-off point for sending fighters to join ISIS terrorists in Syria’ arrested after being deported

Australia

| January 9, 2015

Counterterrorism police arrested Omar Ammouche, 33, and Jibryl Almaouie, 21, in southwest Sydney as part of an ongoing investigation; Ammouche is said to be an associate of Islamic State jihadist Khaled Sharrouf. Melbourne Airport reopened after being evacuated due to a security threat.

Australia

| December 30, 2014

The sixth issue of Dabiq, the Islamic State’s English-language magazine, praised the deadly siege of a Sydney cafe by Man Haron Monis, and claimed that he had heeded the Islamic State’s call. Ahmad Mohamad al-Ghaz’zaoui, a Lebanese man from Sydney, has reportedly been killed in Syria while in the ranks of the Islamic State; he […]

Australia

| December 23, 2014

Security officials have detected “a heightened level of terrorist chatter” following last week’s deadly siege of a Sydney cafe by Man Haron Monis, an Islamic State sympathizer. Authorities have not yet classified the incident as a terrorist attack. A judge revoked bail for Monis’ partner, Amirah Droudis, as she posed “an unacceptable risk.” In an […]

Australia

| December 17, 2014

Prime Minister Abbott ordered an investigation into the Dec. 16 siege at a Sydney cafe by Man Haron Monis, an Iranian Sunni extremist who had been accused of violent crimes and was out on bail, that left three people dead and several others wounded. Iran claimed that it had asked Australia to extradite Monis 12 […]

Australia

| December 16, 2014

In Sydney Hostage Siege, Australia’s New Anti-Terrorism Measures Proved Ineffective

Australia

| December 15, 2014

Sydney siege over: Lindt cafe gunman forces hostages to appear in videos

Australia

| December 15, 2014

Police stormed a cafe in downtown Sydney where Man Haron Monis, an Iranian self-styled cleric and known criminal, was holding hostages for 16 hours after forcing them to display an Islamist flag at the cafe window. Monis and two hostages were killed and a number of hostages were injured; others managed to escape. During the […]

Australia

| December 14, 2014

A number of businesses in central Sydney were evacuated as a hostage situation unfolded in a downtown cafe, where hostages inside were forced to display an Islamist flag at the window. Three hostages have escaped. In a separate matter, two men who had been detained during counterterrorism raids in September were charged; one of them […]

Australia

| December 13, 2014

A Sydney court rejected appeals by five members of the Pendennis terrorist cell against their convictions and sentences. Another member of the cell, Khaled Sharrouf, left for Syria last year to join the Islamic State. Ahmad Saiyer Naizmand, an Afghan who become an Australian citizen in 2007, pled guilty on Dec. 8 to stealing a […]

Afghanistan

| November 28, 2014

Russia claims Islamic State is supplying half of all Afghan heroin coming to Europe

Australia

| November 16, 2014

Immigration Minister Morrison reached out to the family of four brothers from Sydney said to have gone to Turkey to join the Islamic State in Syria; he also urged citizens to call a hotline to report any suspected terrorist activities. Over 60 Australians are known to be currently fighting abroad.

Australia

| November 12, 2014

Banks are scaling back on overseas remittance services as government seeks to cut off terrorist funding sources; the New South Wales Crime Commission’s latest report revealed that in one case that may have involved financing of terrorism in Syria and Iraq, a single remitter sent over $265 million overseas during an eight-year period. Ali al-Hasanat, […]

Australia

| November 10, 2014

Prime Minister Abbott said that 200 Australian special forces troops will be moving into Iraq; they had been waiting for clearance in the UAE for over a month. The Defense Ministry declined to speculate on further troop commitments.

Australia

| November 8, 2014

Authorities are seeking to determine the veracity of reports that an Australian man has died in Syria fighting for the Islamic State; if confirmed, it will be the third such incident in a month. The Islamic State and the Al Nusrah Front have seized thousands of hectares of cropland in Syria and Iraq developed by […]

Australia

| November 2, 2014

A Shia Muslim man was shot outside an Islamic center in southwest Sydney, reportedly by local Islamic State supporters. Khaled Sharrouf and Mohamed Elomar, two Australians who joined the Islamic State in Syria in late 2013, have been linked to Australian construction kingpin George Alex, who is currently under investigation for corrupt business practices.

Australia

| October 29, 2014

Australia trying to confirm death of IS militant Mohammad Ali Baryalei

Australia

| October 2, 2014

Tony Abbott ready for Australia to join fight against Islamic State despite measured response

Australia

| September 28, 2014

After jihadist arrests, Australian mufti rejects Islamic State fatwa