The US White House has included the Lindt Cafe siege in Sydney and four other Australian incidents on a list of terrorism attacks that it claims did not get adequate media coverage, after President Donald Trump accused the media of ignoring attacks by Islamic State.
Mr Trump said news outlets "have their reasons" for not reporting what he said was a "genocide" underway at the hands of the group.
The President did not immediately offer evidence to support his claim, made during his first visit to the headquarters for US Central Command.
Later, the White House released a list of 78 attacks it described as "executed or inspired by" the Islamic State group since September 2014.
Five of the 78 incidents occurred in Australia , including Man Haron-Monis' 2014 attack on Sydney's Lindt Cafe - in which two people died.
Experts at the coronial inquest into the December 2014 attack have been divided on whether Monis' actions was an act of terrorism or the result of Monis's mental illness and violent past.
At the time the siege made front page news across the world including on The New York Times, The Washington Post and the UK's The Independent and The Daily Telegraph.
The White House also lists the stabbing deaths of British backpackers Mia Ayliffe-Chung and Tom Jackson at a Townsville hostel in August 2016.
French national Smail Ayad, who has been charged with two counts of murder, was allegedly heard yelling "Allahu Akbar" during the attack but police found no evidence to link the Frenchman to extremism or radicalisation.
Police allege the 29-year-old had developed a romantic interest in Ms Ayliffe-Chung but it had not been reciprocated.
The other three incidents are:
- the September 2014 stabbing of two counter terrorism police by Numan Haider, 18, outside Melbourne's Endeavour Hills police station
- the shooting death of NSW police accountant Curtis Cheng as he left NSW Police Headquarters at Parramatta in October 2015
- the south-westrn Sydney stabbing of Minto man Wayne Greenhalgh, 58 in September 2016. Ihsas Khan, 22, has been charged with attempted murder and committing a terrorist act.
Police have alleged that those three attacks have links to, or been inspired by, Islamic State.
Also on the list is the 2016 Orlando nightclub shooting, the Bastille Day attacks in Nice in 2016 and the co-ordinated terror attacks in Paris in November 2015.
The White House said "most" on the list did not get sufficient media attention, although it did not explain how it defined the term. Some of the incidents on the list received widespread attention and deep reporting.
The list includes incidents like the truck massacre in Nice, France, that killed dozens and received widespread attention, as well as less high-profile incidents in which nobody was killed.
The list appeared to be hastily assembled, including several misspellings.
Mr Trump, who has made relentless criticism of the media a hallmark of his presidency, did not explain why he thinks news outlets minimise attention on such attacks.
Later, White House spokesman Sean Spicer tried to tone down the President's remarks, saying it was a question of balance: "Like a protest gets blown out of the water, and yet an attack or a foiled attack doesn't necessarily get the same coverage."
Mr Trump had said the "very dishonest" press chose not to report European terrorism attacks.
The President has made defeating Islamic State a core goal of his presidency. He did not specify which attacks were going unreported, which news media organisations were ignoring them, or offer details to support his claims.
"All over Europe, it's happening. It's gotten to a point where it's not even being reported," he told troops at MacDill Air Force Base in Florida.
"And, in many cases, the very, very dishonest press doesn't want to report it. They have their reasons, and you understand that," he added, without saying what those reasons were.
It was Trump's latest salvo against the news media, a favourite target for derision who he says broadly underestimated his chances during the presidential campaign. He has kept up the attacks since his January 20 inauguration.
Al Tompkins, at The Poynter Institute, a Florida-based journalism school, dismissed Mr Trump's criticism.
"To suggest that journalists have some reason not to report ISIS attacks is just outlandish," Mr Tompkins said.
With AAP, AP