Activist Malala Yousafzai has said she is "so excited" after gaining a place at the University of Oxford.

While the media slavers over every bloody moment, rehashing and draining the last drop of gore from every single incident, ordinary people march on, writes Suzanne Harrington. 

Garda HQ will conduct a fresh review of security strategies after the London terrorist attack and are monitoring the reaction of a small number of jihadist sympathisers here.

The moment a suspected Islamic extremist grabbed a soldier from behind at Paris's Orly Airport has been captured on video.

A suspected Islamic extremist took drugs and drank alcohol before he took a soldier hostage at Paris' Orly Airport and was shot dead by her fellow patrolmen.

Tourists from the UK, Canada and Malaysia hid inside a Crusader castle during armed clashes between troops and gunmen at the Jordanian site, officials have said.

Update 4.47pm: A news agency run by the so-called 'Islamic State' group has claimed the man who stabbed and wounded eight people at a shopping mall in Minnesota, before being shot dead by an off-duty police officer, was a "soldier of the Islamic State".

Update 10.36am: A bomb attack on an outdoor wedding party in south-eastern Turkey that killed 50 people and wounded dozens of others was the work of the so-called ‘Islamic State’ group, the country's president said.

Turkey will continue fighting whatever powers seek to undermine the government, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan vowed on Sunday as he addressed a massive flag-waving rally in Istanbul in the wake of the country's abortive July 15 coup.

Not all countries in the Middle East aspire to a western-style democratic model and it is this misunderstanding of people’s needs that has led to the inexorable rise of IS, writes JP O’Malley.

A nanny accused of killing and decapitating a four-year-old girl was not acting on her own, Russian prosecutors have said.

Some years ago, I received a very unusual (but very beautiful) card from a gentle friend in West Australia. It pictured a mother kangaroo guarding her baby in a manger, capturing something of the essence of Christmas in an authentic Australian setting.

A masked jihadi with a British accent mocks David Cameron in a purported new Islamic State video showing the execution of five men accused of being spies for the UK.

Schools in a Virginia county closed yesterday as a safety precaution after an assignment asking students to practice Arabic calligraphy sparked an angry outcry from parents and threats from outside the district.

Germany to vote on military mission as Putin calls for the world to fight IS with ‘one powerful fist’

President Vladimir Putin said Turkey’s shooting down of a Russian military jet was a war crime and that the Kremlin would punish Ankara with additional sanctions, signalling fallout from the incident would be long-lasting and serious.

Despite the western world being under attack from ISIS and other Islamist/jihadist groups, the greatest threat to our survival comes from within. 

In full conformity with the Islamic teachings, the European Council for Fatwa and Research vehemently abhors and deplores terrorism of all kinds regardless of the perpetrators’ race and faith. 

A new toll has put the number of pilgrims killed during the crush and stampede that struck the hajj last month at 2,110 at least.

Over the years, it’s become fashionable to describe many countries, including Ireland, as post-Christian societies.

Gardaí, immigration and public-service workers should undergo anti-racism and diversity training, according to the Immigrant Council of Ireland (ICI).

Islamic State militants have accepted a pledge of allegiance by the Nigerian-grown Boko Haram extremist group, a spokesman for IS has said.

Nigeria’s home-grown Boko Haram group, newly weakened by a multinational force that has dislodged it from a score of north-eastern towns, has reportedly pledged formal allegiance to the Islamic State group.

A teenager is facing years behind bars after being found guilty of hatching a plot to behead a British soldier inspired by the murder of Fusilier Lee Rigby.

A video showing the mass beheading of Egyptian Coptic Christian hostages by Islamic State (IS) linked terrorists in Libya has sparked worldwide revulsion.

A video purporting to show the mass beheading of Coptic Christian hostages has been released by militants in Libya claiming loyalty to the Islamic State group.

The heinous acts committed by Islamic State are done to make it look more powerful and impenetrable. But they can also unite its enemies and detractors, writes Arie W Kruglanski.

One of two men charged with planning to launch an imminent terrorist attack in Australia appeared on a video threatening to stab the kidneys and necks of victims, the prime minister has said, accusing the pair of "monstrous extremism".

A teenage Muslim who idolised the killers of Fusilier Lee Rigby was arrested as he made his way to behead a British soldier, a court heard.

Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau has claimed responsibility for the mass killings in the north-east Nigerian town of Baga and threatened more violence.

Charlie Hebdo publishes cartoons about all figures in authority, be they political or religious. It has depicted the leaders of the Catholic and Jewish faith more times than it has ever featured pictures of Muslim leaders.

According to Article 44.1 of the Constitution, “the State acknowledges that the homage of public worship is due to Almighty God. It shall hold His Name in reverence and shall respect and honour religion.“

A video purporting to show a young boy executing two men accused of working for Russian intelligence services has been released by the Islamic State jihadist group.

Comedian Oliver Callan yesterday defended his lampooning of Michael D Higgins in the wake of criticism by Mark Patrick Hederman, abbot of Glenstal Abbey and a friend of the President.

When adherents of a faith insist on privileged status for them and them alone, like the Pope in 1870 and some followers of Islam today, it is more than problematic, writes TP O’Mahony

Indonesia's search and rescue chief said today he was "confident" two large objects detected under the Java Sea were the wreckage of AirAsia Flight 8501.

A major police operation is under way in downtown Sydney, where several people inside a chocolate shop and cafe could be seen through the windows with their hands held in the air.

His head bowed and hands clasped in front of him, Pope Francis stood today for two minutes of silent prayer facing east inside one of Istanbul’s most important mosques, as he shifted gears toward more religious affairs on the second leg of his three-day visit to mainly Muslim Turkey.

Islamic State militants have beheaded another American hostage, Peter Kassig, issuing a video claiming the killing yesterday and warning the US they would kill other US citizens "on your streets."