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The Prime Minister at Lakemba mosque.

Albanese confronted by protesters at Lakemba Mosque

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke were attending prayers at the mosque to mark the end of Ramadan.

  • Mostafa Rachwani

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Women hold posters as thousands of people gather in Enghelab Square, Tehran, after Iranian state media confirmed the death of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

My cell guard’s tears put my jaw on the floor. Why ‘good’ Australians mourn a torturer

We have experienced the trauma of Islamist-inspired terror on our shores. How can memorials for a vicious mass killer align with Australian values?

  • Kylie Moore-Gilbert
He is seen here sitting next to Bilal Merhi and Wassim Doureihi, two well known leaders of Hizb ut-Tahrir in Australia.
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Grand Mufti of Australia appears with listed hate group Hizb ut-Tahrir

He is seen here sitting next to Bilal Merhi and Wassim Doureihi, two well known leaders of Hizb ut-Tahrir in Australia.

A giant banner of Khamenei stretched over one of the Islamic Cultural Centre’s windows.

‘World’s thugs’: In Indonesia, resentment about the Iran war is everywhere

Politicians and pundits in Australia tell Muslims it is inappropriate to publicly mourn Iran’s dead supreme leader. There are no such qualms in Jakarta.

  • Zach Hope and Karuni Rompies
Grand Mufti of Australia Dr Ibrahim Abu Mohamad on left, sitting next to Wassim Doureihi and Bilal Merhi, from Hizb ut-Tahrir, at a memorial in 2023. 

Grand mufti attended tribute to spiritual leader of banned hate group Hizb ut-Tahrir

The Albanese government has enacted its first listing of a prohibited hate group, following reforms lodged after the Bondi massacre.

  • Rob Harris and Nick Newling
Flames and smoke rise following Israeli airstrikes on Dahiyeh, a southern suburb of Beirut, Lebanon, on Monday.

What is Hezbollah and why is Israel attacking Lebanon?

Israel began striking southern Lebanon on Monday in response to rockets being fired into its north. Now it says a Lebanese party chief is an assassination target. Here’s what to know.

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Trump won’t rule out boots on the ground; Hegseth slams ‘pearl-clutching’ allies

Donald Trump warned Iran “the big one is coming”, and War Secretary Pete Hegseth said America was not caught in a repeat of the Iraq War.

  • Michael Koziol
Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who was killed in the US-Israel attack.

No one doubted America’s ability to unleash hell. The question is how it handles what comes next

Ayatollah Khamenei was the head of one of the world’s worst regimes, but his assassination does not assure its downfall.

  • Peter Hartcher
Gatherings go global: protesters rally in London carrying Iran’s traditional pre-Islamic Republic flag.

‘Thank you, Trump’: The Iranians who hope war will topple the regime

As missiles rained down on their home country, London’s Iranians gathered and dared to dream of a brighter future.

  • David Crowe
Kirsty Rosse-Emile, pictured with son Yahya in 2019, is expected to eventually be resettled in Melbourne.

Too dangerous to return? What we know of the ISIS brides

Some call for the families to be rescued from the camps in Syria. Others, haunted by their own suffering at the hands of Islamic State, are afraid of their return.

  • Michael Bachelard and Anthony Segaert