An Australian student convicted of being a member of the Islamic State terror group has had her guilty verdict overturned on appeal.

Kurdish SDF commander Mazloum Abdi claimed his forces were fed information about Baghdadi's whereabouts by a top security official who wanted revenge against the ISIS leader.

FBI Director Christopher Wray said Wednesday in Washington: 'Terrorism today moves at the speed of social media' and the rapid development of technology has helped boost lone terrorists.

The new leader of the Islamic State group is 'a nobody' with little apparent reputation even amongst adherents of the terror group, an anonymous US official said Wednesday.

An Arizona border sheriff says Mexican drug cartels like the one behind the Mormon family massacre pose an ISIS-like threat as authorities fear the same group could be running drug operations in Utah.

Male lions Thor and Mumford and white lionesses Isis and Mia died in torment after the killers tossed the deadly meals into their compounds at Hartbeespoort near Johannesburg.

Funerals began on Thursday in Sonora state for three of the nine LeBaron family victims after the Mexican government said they were ambushed by drug cartels.

The government of Turkish leader Recep Tayyip Erdogan (pictured) has frequently criticised Western countries for refusing to take back their ISIS fighters.

Turkey on Thursday announced it will deport an American IS fighter back to the US after he was stuck in a border buffer zone between Greece and Turkey for days.

One aide to a senior official in the Oval Office meeting said Erdogan's footage 'looked like an ISIS propaganda film made by the guys from South Park.'

CCTV footage shows the moment the knifeman, 26, had walked up behind unsuspecting James Knox, screaming 'Allahu Akbar!' and 'Long live the Caliphate!' as he stabbed his victim repeatedly.

Officials unsealed a new indictment against 37-year-old Jehad Serwan Mostafa on Monday, claiming his leadership of the terrorist outfit al-Shabaab has led to the slaughter of hundreds.

HARRY COLE: Jeremy Corbyn claimed that Islamic State was 'not a great threat to the UK' only hours after a video of Jihadi John beheading a British aid worker horrified the world.

Sajmir Alimehmeti, 26, was sentenced to 22 years in prison in New York on Friday. He admitted to buying military-grade weapons and helping a terrorist recruit.

Boris Johnson will try to make UK national security bulletproof by bolstering powers for the secret services as he considers whether to make it illegal for people to secretly work for a foreign power.

Paul Newey, 49, is accused of funding terrorism for sending his son Dan £150, even though his Kurdish-led military unit was backed by Britain and trained by the SAS.

US general David Petraeus, who led the CIA from 2011 to 2012, said Friday's killing of Qassem Suleimani by Baghdad International Airport was also more important than ISIS's al-Baghdadi's death.

In a phone call with Iraqi counterpart Adil Abdul Mahdi, the PM tried to cool anger by stressing his commitment to 'Iraq's stability and sovereignty' after the Iranian commander was killed.

Boris Johnson has been desperately trying to ease tensions in the wake of the dramatic US strike that killed general Qassem Soleimani in Baghdad on Friday.

Brookfield Zoo in Illinois announced the death of African lion Isis, after she fell from a 15-foot height and was discovered with severe injuries which led veterinary staff to euthanize her.

Shifa Al-Nima, who was dubbed 'Jabba the Jihadi' on social media, has told investigators that he received £4,500 from a man using the nom de guerre Abu Mustapha Al-Najmawi.

J. David Patterson penned the op-ed in 2017, days after an ISIS inspired attack. 'Multiculturalism is the antithesis of what the United States stands for', he wrote.

Pictured today, the female members of the Kurdistan Democratic Party, took part in their turning out among other male recruits near the Iraqi-Kurdish town of Soran, 60 miles northeast of Erbil.

MICK HUME: The great danger is that Ofcom's powers to police the internet will not actually make us or our children safer, but will instead give rise to censorship.

A woman accused of recruiting an Islamic State fighter has faced a Melbourne court on terrorism charges.

A list of 'religious directives' on tackling infectious diseases appeared in the latest issue of the terror group's newspaper al-Naba. It advises terrorists not to travel to affected areas.

RICHARD LITTLEJOHN: Today's edition of You Couldn't Make It Up comes courtesy of Islamic State, which has advised jihadists to steer clear of Europe in case they catch coronavirus.

The families of three men who were brutally murdered by a terror cell from the so-called Islamic State have said they are 'deeply concerned' about a ruling made by the UK's highest court.

The brother of a British volunteer kidnapped and murdered by Islamic State says he believes the abduction was an 'inside job' by someone on the aid convoy he was part of (pictured, Reg Henning).

Police sources said today that British-Egyptian jihadist Abdel-Majed Abdel Bary was the 'foreign terrorist fighter' detained in a raid in Almeria on Monday.

The horrifying attack took place in the northern suburb of Colombes shortly after 5.30pm on Monday and left one of the officers in intensive care.

Police are looking into the possibility Isis 'sleepers' have been 'reactivated' and are plotting attacks around Europe. Two weeks ago Britain's most wanted ISIS fugitive, who has links to Jihadi John, was arrested.

Judge Brian Cogan ruled Monday that the detention conditions at Metropolitan Correctional Center in Manhattan are necessary given Joaquin 'El Chapo' Guzman's history of jailbreaks in Mexico.

For a weekday entrance fee of $15, visitors in Mexico City of all ages take part in a 60-minute game where they take on role of infamous drug trafficker Joaquín 'El Chapo' Guzmán.

Guadalupe Fernández Valencia, 59, entered the two guilty pleas in a Chicago courtroom on Wednesday - almost two years after she was extradited to the United States from Mexico.

That passport also listed Epstein's residence as being in Saudi Arabia said Rossmiller, who revealed it was found in a locked safe during the search of he pedophile's home earlier this month.

Months before El Chapo was extradited to the United States in January 2017, the drug lord already had a plan in place to escape from the same Mexican prison once fled in two years earlier.

Emma Aispuro Coronel is continuing to her document her lavish European holiday, as her drug lord husband Joaquín 'El Chapo' Guzmán adjusts to life in a supermax prison.

As Joaquín 'El Chapo' Guzmán spends the rest of his life in the most secure prison in the United States, he has a wish: giving all of his massive wealth to the indigenous people of Mexico.

In February, Guzman, 62, was found guilty of trafficking $12 billion worth of cocaine, heroin and marijuana during his reign as the Don of the Mexican Sinaloa Cartel, beginning in the late 1980s.

Dayron Luna Viera died Wednesday as a result of the severe burns he suffered when a group of armed men torched the family home in northwestern Mexico.

A funeral has been held in Sinaloa, Mexico, for one of El Chapo's 'top assassins' dubbed the 'Kim Kardashian of crime.' She was found dead from a suspected drug overdose earlier this month.

Nemesio Osegura Cervantes, 'El Mencho', has picked up where the infamous Joaquin Guzman, formerly El Chapo, left off in Mexico, according to federal investigators.

The brief apprehension of Joaquin 'El Chapo' Guzman's son, Ovidio Guzman Lopez, triggered a raging gun battle on Thursday in the Mexican city of Culiacan.

The Mexican city of Culiacan turned into a warzone as Mexican police arrested El Chapo's son, only to have to hand him back after a bloody clash with gang members on Thursday.

The violence began when cartel leaders including Ovidio Guzmán López, one of El Chapo's sons, who were hiding in a house in Culiacán, opened fire on a group of soldiers on Thursday.

El Chapo's lawyer revealed that the arrest warrant for Ovidio Guzman Lopez that led to Thursday's violence in Culiacan, Mexico, stemmed from a federal judge in Washington, DC.

The Mexican police officer involved in the arrest of the son of reputed drug lord Joaquin 'El Chapo' Guzman was assassinated after his car came under a barrage of gunfire inside a parking lot.

Mexico sold three of the six homes it confiscated from Joaquín ' El Chapo ' Guzmán at an auction in Mexico City on Sunday.

The growth of Reuben 'Nemesio' Oseguera Cervantes' Cartel Jalisco Nueva Generacion from coast to coast over the past decade has made the cartel a 'clear, present and growing danger'.