Investigating the return of the Islamic State terrorist group
The Bondi Beach terrorist attack signalled the resurgence of the Islamic State terrorist group in Australia.
For the past two years, ABC Investigations has tracked the group's revival, identifying key figures, mapping the network and raising questions about the response of police, intelligence agencies and governments.
A major ongoing investigation led by reporter Sean Rubinsztein-Dunlop and producer Kyle Taylor is exposing the local network radicalising young Australians — and the failures that allowed IS to inspire the killing of 15 people at Bondi in December.
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A teenager who slipped the intelligence net and stabbed a Sydney bishop in an alleged terrorist attack 20 months before the Bondi Beach massacre has been diagnosed with schizophrenia, a court hears.
A suspected serial violent homophobe linked to an Islamic State terrorist network has walked free on probation after pleading guilty to a brutal snuff-video-style gay bashing.
The New South Wales premier has flagged harsher punishments and new criminal offences in response to gay and bisexual teens being lured online and bashed on camera.
An ABC investigation has obtained distressing videos and victims' accounts of IS sympathisers hunting and bashing gay and bisexual boys on camera in Sydney.
Bondi Beach terrorist Sajid Akram voiced support for Islamic State (IS) in 2019 and expressed admiration for a leading Al Qaeda propagandist, according to accounts from two men who moved in the same extremist circles.
The former undercover agent spied on the Akrams when he infiltrated a Sydney IS terror cell for Australia's intelligence agency.
Bondi gunman Naveed Akram trained at a Sydney shooting club in "firearms safety" and "how to hunt", the club's president revealed.
Father-son gunmen Sajid and Naveed Akram travelled to the Philippines to receive "military-style training" in the month before they killed 15 people at Bondi Beach, security sources have confirmed.
At least one of the gunmen who killed 15 people in Sunday's Bondi Beach terrorist attack was known to authorities as a follower of a notorious Sydney pro-Islamic State cleric, the ABC can reveal.
Australia's domestic intelligence agency, ASIO, examined one of the Bondi Beach gunmen six years ago for his close ties to a Sydney-based Islamic State (IS) terrorism cell, the ABC understands.
A law enforcement official has told the ABC that police have raided one of the alleged gunman's house in Sydney's south-west.
Sydney cleric Wisam Haddad is working with a convicted terrorism recruiter to exploit the pro-Palestinian movement, radicalise Australian teens and feed Islamic State's revival, an ABC investigation reveals.
An organisation run by Sydney jihadist spiritual leader Wisam Haddad has been stripped of its charity status after a Four Corners investigation revealed it was radicalising young Australians while receiving tax breaks from the government.
Notorious Australian terrorist leader Abdul Nacer Benbrika organised funding for radical preacher Wisam Haddad's hate-speech legal battle against Australia's peak Jewish body.
A former ASIO spy is breaking his cover to expose the activities of a notorious preacher at the centre of Australia's resurgent pro-Islamic State network.
Australia's domestic spy agency, ASIO, was repeatedly warned about a potential attack on a Sydney bishop almost two years before it happened, according to explosive claims by a former undercover agent.
A magistrate deals a fresh blow to a "weak" Commonwealth case against a suspected Sydney terrorism network, describing an alleged terror plan as "all talk" as he grants bail to a fourth teenager.
A 15-year-old accused of conspiring a terrorist attack against Jewish and Assyrian people is granted bail after a NSW Supreme Court judge finds the Commonwealth's case against him "does not appear strong".
The parents of the 16-year-old who stabbed a Sydney bishop have spoken publicly for the first time, detailing their son's serious anger management issues and history of violence.
An influential former Islamic State supporter was questioned in Wednesday's police raids on an alleged terrorism network involving a group of Sydney boys.
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