Sajid Akram had "limited" contact with his family in Hyderabad since moving to Australia 27 years ago, a police official said.

Australia's prime minister said the suspects in the shooting at the Hanukkah event were “motivated by Islamic State ideology.” They had traveled to the Philippines prior to the attack, officials said.

The father and son duo suspected of carrying out a massacre at Sydney’s famed Bondi Beach on Sunday were “driven by Islamic state ideology,” police say, and they recently traveled to a part of the Philippines – which has previously been a hotbed of Islamic extremism.

The group has historically opposed Hamas but has sought to capitalize on recent groundswell of pro-Palestinian sentiment.

Naveed Akram, one of the two terrorists who killed 15 people at a Chanukah event on Bondi Beach, was revealed to have ties to a jihadist preacher

Major media outlets across the globe have praised the bravery of 43-year-old hero Ahmed al Ahmed, who tackled terrorist Sjid Akram during his murderous rampage.

A Sydney man of Pakistani origin says he's been targeted with abuse by people falsely accusing him of being one of the gunmen in the Bondi Beach shooting.

Fifteen people - including a 10-year-old girl and a British-born rabbi - were killed when two gunmen targeted Jewish people attending a Hanukkah event.