The number of deaths from terrorism has fallen in Europe, but fear of it is being used to justify for more intrusive security measures, writes Robert Skidelsky.

An Australian jury has convicted a man of plotting to blow up an Etihad Airways airliner on a flight from Sydney to the United Arab Emirates with a bomb hidden in a meat grinder.

Ireland’s new intelligence oversight chief must have “full access” to classified material and be “wholly independent” of Government, the former British oversight boss has said.

New Zealand's parliament has passed sweeping gun laws that outlaw military-style weapons less than a month after mass shootings at two mosques in the city of Christchurch left 50 people dead and dozens wounded.

A new database will make crucial information available to 27 member-states including data on people who have two passports.

Gardaí are conducting a high-level security investigation after reports that at least one of the three explosive packages in London were sent from Ireland.

The Government is introducing offences to stop Irish people travelling abroad to fight for terrorist groups, such as Islamic State and other jihadist militants.

It is “absolutely essential” that staffing at a specialist Garda unit tasked with assessing intelligence on the financing of terrorism is increased, Fianna Fáil has said.

Specialist agencies are to have their powers boosted under new anti-money laundering and terrorist financing laws.

Basque separatist group ETA has apologised for the pain that its armed campaign for Basque independence has caused, and vowed not to return to violence.

A 15-year-old boy has been arrested after a terror threat at a Dublin school.

Six people have been detained in connection with what police and prosecutors allege was a plan to carry out an extremist attack on Berlin's half-marathon, German authorities said.

A car bomb has exploded near Somalia's parliament in the capital, Mogadishu, killing at least four people along with the driver, and injuring several others.

MI5 was "actively" investigating the ringleader of the London Bridge atrocity at the time of the rampage, while the Manchester bombing could have been stopped "had the cards fallen differently", an official assessment has found.

A total of nine Islamist terrorist plots have been thwarted in the UK over the past year, the director general of MI5 has told Britain’s Cabinet.

President Donald Trump has announced the US is putting North Korea's "murderous regime" on America's terrorism blacklist.

An Uzbek immigrant accused of a deadly truck attack on a New York cycle path has been charged with providing material support to a terrorist group and violence and destruction of motor vehicles.

"This was a vicious and heartless attack on the people of New York, striking just a few blocks from the site of the 9/11 atrocity."

There has been a "dramatic" jump in the scale and pace of the threat facing Britain.

Activist Christina Noble has told of her terror after an intruder held her at knifepoint in her own home.

The Filipino-Irish family caught up in the Barcelona terror attack have returned safely to Ireland.

Police in Australia have raided properties in several Sydney suburbs and arrested four men suspected of plotting a terrorist attack.