Mass Yazidi grave found after IS ousted

A mass grave believed to contain the remains of more than 70 members of Iraq's Yazidi minority has been discovered east of Sinjar, Iraq.

Rainsy defies jail threat to 'rescue' Cambodia

Lindsay Murdoch 12:38 PM   Cambodia's opposition leader Sam Rainsy has declared that for the sake of his nation he will return to Phnom Penh despite facing a two year jail sentence.

Account of terror from Australia's ambassador

Nick Miller 3:50 PM    Australia's ambassador to France says he has seen France's intelligence workers age years in the past few month as they work against the nation's Islamist threat.

Jittery Parisians stampede from square

Nick Miller 10:37 PM   A Belgian national who is presently thought to be in Syria is suspected of being behind Friday's attacks in Paris, according to a source close to the French investigation.

15 killed at Egyptian border: officials

At least 15 Sudanese migrants trying to cross from Egypt into Israel were shot and killed at the border, possibly by Egyptian police officers, according to security officials.

Islamic State's 'apocalypse' is propaganda, not military strategy

Tom Allard 10:53 PM   Is Islamic State trying to lure the West into a full-scale invasion and fulfil a prophecy of an end-of-days battle with the crusaders?

Paris attacks day three: police hunt for terrorists

Kate Aubusson 10:49 PM   Follow all the latest news as it unfolds in Paris.

'If I must die, let it be it': Opposition leader delays returning to Cambodia

Lindsay Murdoch 10:38 PM   Opposition leader says he will return 'in the next few days' after being advised not to arrive late at night.

Paris attacks: alleged mastermind named as Abdelhamid Abaaoud

Kate Aubusson 10:28 PM   Belgian-born Abdelhamid Abaaoud has been identified as the alleged mastermind of the Paris attacks, a french official has told the Associated Press.

Military options offer little hope of quick success

David Wroe 7:10 PM   Following his declaration that the Paris attacks were an "act of war", President Francois Hollande swiftly sent French planes to pound Islamic State targets in Syria.

French officials think as many as 20 plotters may be behind Paris attacks

Anthony Faiola and Souad Mekhennet 7:00 PM   European authorities staged an international manhunt on Sunday for a 26-year-old "dangerous individual," one of three brothers involved in the deadly attacks on Paris, even as an image took shape of a larger network of terrorists that could involve as many as 20 plotters.

United Nations mum over report that Ban Ki-moon to visit North Korea

Jack Kim and Ju-min Park 6:56 PM   UN chief will visit North Korea's capital Pyongyang this week, South Korea's Yonhap news agency reported.

Israeli troops kill two Palestinians in West Bank violence

Ori Lewis 6:31 PM   Israeli troops shot dead at least two Palestinians during a gun battle in the occupied West Bank on Monday, Palestinian medical sources said.

Police raids in four cities follow Paris attacks

6:10 PM   Arrests follow raids across France on Monday morning, but authorities say they are unconnected to the Paris attacks.

Stopped at the gates: how the Paris death toll could have been much higher

Amanda Dunn 5:22 PM   Amid the carnage in Paris on Friday, what happened at the Stade de France was a triumph of calm and good sense on a mass scale.

Paris attacks: Declaring 'war' risks handing Islamic State credibility

Daniel Flitton 4:19 PM   The language of "war" following the Paris attacks risks granting unintended credibility to Islamic State terrorists, legal scholars warn.

Pentagon transfers five Guantanamo inmates

Adam Goldman 4:15 PM   The Pentagon transferred five Yemeni detainees who had been held for more than a decade at the prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to the United Arab Emirates, US officials announced on Sunday.

Obama, Cameron urge Putin to focus on Islamic State

Matt Spetalnick 4:08 PM   Russian and US leaders agree during a 35-minute meeting in Turkey that a "political transition" is needed in Syria.

Paris attacks: Who were the victims of France's worst-ever terrorist attack

4:07 PM   Who were the victims of France's worst-ever terrorist attack?

Paris attacks: Why these particular sites were targeted

Emily Badger and Mark Berman 3:52 PM   There was a logic to these places: the concert hall, the cafes, the stadium. In boasting of responsibility for Friday's deadly rampage, the Islamic State called these "precisely chosen targets," symbols of the Parisian "capital of prostitution and vice".

French warplanes strike Islamic State stronghold in Syria

3:51 PM   French fighter jets launched their biggest raids in Syria to date, targeting the Islamic State's stronghold in Raqqa just two days after the group claimed responsibility for coordinated attacks in Paris that killed more than 130 people, the defence ministry said.

Paris attacks: Manhunt under way as brothers identified as suspects

Aurelien Breeden and Adam Nossiter 3:50 PM   The Paris terrorist attacks were carried out with the help of three French brothers living in Belgium, the authorities said on Sunday, as they asked the public's help in finding one of them.

'We must not give the terrorists what they want'

Peter Hartcher 3:47 PM   If the killers were able to murder 129 people in Paris and injure 352, and to achieve nothing beyond that, they wouldn't be shooting people and blowing themselves up.

Australian authorities urged to take stock and bolster resources

Rachel Olding 3:37 PM   Australian police and intelligence agencies have been urged to take stock, bolster resources and undertake training exercises for mass terrorist attacks similar to the Paris tragedy.

Paris attacks: the evidence driving international hunt

Nick Miller 3:30 PM   Three key pieces of evidence are driving an international investigation into the accomplices, masterminds and financiers behind the terrorist atrocity in Paris.

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Sikh man wrongly labelled a terrorist in Paris aftermath

Michael Koziol 3:24 PM   Veerender Jubbal, a Sikh man living in Canada, was wrongly accused of involvement in the Paris terror attacks.

Paris attacks cast spotlight on the Brussels district of Molenbeek

Robert-Jan Bartunek and Barbara Lewis 3:23 PM   Two of the attackers behind Friday's Paris attacks were French nationals who had been in living in Brussels, Belgian officials said on Sunday as Prime Minister Charles Michel declared his nation was no place for "preachers of hatred".