Indian-Origin ISIS Recruiter Neil Prakash Killed In Iraq' Australian Sources.

Indian-Origin ISIS Recruiter Neil Prakash Killed In Iraq' Australian Sources. (NDTv).

Australia's most wanted ISIS terror recruiter Neil Prakash a.k.a. Abu Khaled , who is of Indian-origin, has been killed in a US military airstrike in Iraq, according to officials.

Melbourne-born Prakash, who was linked to several Australia-based attack plans and calls for lone-wolf attacks against the US, was killed in an airstrike in Mosul on April 29, Attorney-General George Brandis said, citing American inputs.

"Neil Prakash was the highest value target from an Australian point of view in the Middle East. He was the individual more than any other who had been actively inspiring and inciting domestic terrorism attacks within Australia," the Senator said yesterday.

Brandis said Australian authorities were instrumental in providing US allies with the location of Prakash - the Australian of Fijian-Indian and Cambodian background - in Mosul.

"Australia did cooperate with United States in relation to the identification and location of Prakash," he said. Brandis said Prakash was "the most prominent and dangerous Australian" and had networks in both Melbourne and Sydney. "He was very actively involved in terrorism recruitment."

Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull called Prakash's death as a "very, very positive development".

"Neil Prakash's death is a very, very positive development in the war against Daesh and the war against terror," Turnbull was quoted as saying, using another acronym for the dreaded Islamic State (ISIS).

US officials also reportedly informed that an Australian woman Shadi Jabar, the sister of the 15-year-old western Sydney boy Farhad Jabar who shot dead police accountant Curtis Cheng in October last year, was also killed in a separate airstrike in Syria.

Prakash was killed in the ISIS stronghold in northern Iraq, while Jabar died seven days earlier in the Syrian city of al Bab along with her husband Abu Saad al-Sudani, AAP news agency said.              

Australian Boy, 16, arrested over 'Anzac Day terror plot' was in De-radicalization program.

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Australian Boy, 16, arrested over 'Anzac Day terror plot' was in De-radicalization program. (Smh).

The 16-year-old boy arrested in Sydney on terrorism charges on Sunday afternoon is alleged by police to have chatted about obtaining a gun for use in a terrorist attack. Vision courtesy Ten News.

A 16-year-old boy arrested over an alleged Anzac Day terrorism plot had been in a government-run deradicalisation program for about a year.

The boy, who cannot be named for legal reasons, chose not to appear in Parramatta Children's Court on Tuesday for a brief mention two days after his arrest.

His lawyer, Zemarai Khatiz, entered a not guilty plea to one charge of doing an act in preparation or planning for a terrorist act, an offence that carries a maximum sentence of life in prison.

The boy was arrested near his Auburn home Sunday afternoon, just hours after police allegedly intercepted an online chat he was having with a man overseas in which he mentioned trying to obtain a firearm and targeting an Anzac Day event on Monday.

He was not considered a "prime target" for counter-terrorism officers but had been on their radar for about a year.

The boy was arrested near his Auburn home Sunday afternoon, just hours after police allegedly intercepted an online chat he was having with a man overseas in which he mentioned trying to obtain a firearm and targeting an Anzac Day event on Monday.

The boy came to the attention of police in May last year after he was intercepted talking ­online to Neil Prakash, a former Melbourne man who had risen to become a key Islamic State figure.

Prakash, who has been involved in several foiled terror plots, was reportedly trying to encourage the teen to launch a Sydney attack to co-ordinate with a Melbourne bombing. Read the full story here.

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