Australia’s largest state Sunday said it was building a separate prison wing for extremist inmates to tackle radicalisation following a rise in homegrown attacks. New South Wales, home to about a third of Australia’s 24-million-strong population, has been the site of two terror attacks in recent years, including a cafe siege in 2014 where two … Read more
A fatal shootout claimed by the Islamic State group was being treated as a terrorist attack, Australian police said Tuesday, as the prime minister condemned it as “shocking and cowardly”. A man of Somali background was killed in a gun battle with police when he opened fire following an hour-long standoff after taking an escort … Read more
Australian police are treating as a “terrorist incident” a Melbourne siege in which a gunman was killed. Officers went to an address in a suburb of the city on Monday after reports of an explosion and found one man already dead in a stairwell. Another man, now identified as Yacqub Khayre, was holding a woman … Read more