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With Afghanistan's second and third-largest cities having fallen to the Taliban, Kabul has effectively become the besieged, last stand for the government forces.
Share on Twitter The Australian Defence Force has released a four-year plan to address systemic and cultural failings within the organisation as part of a long-awaited response to the Afghanistan war crimes inquiry. The plan was posted on the website of the Inspector-General of the Australian Defence Force on Friday, with no public statement or press release acknowledging its publication. The 36-page document sets out a series of “work packages” to be rolled out until the end of 2025, with a commitment to making changes to organisational arrangements, recruitment processes and...
Prime Minister Scott Morrison has not ruled out an Australian return to Afghanistan, if it was safe to do so. Australia recently shuttered its embassy in Kabul and on June 18 quietly withdrew all Australian Defence Force personnel. From September 11, 20 years after the Al Qaeda attack on New York's World Trade Centre, the US and NATO forces will no longer have any presence in the war-torn country. READ MORE: Australian Special Operations Task Group Soldiers move towards waiting UH-60 Blackhawk helicopters, in Afghanistan.(AAP) "Were we in a position to safely have Australians in Afghanistan a...
Australia's most decorated soldier is in the witness box in his Federal Court defamation trial against Nine newspapers which he says defamed the 42-year-old by accusing him of war crimes.
Ben Roberts-Smith’s high stakes defamation trial against Nine newspapers has heard that the decorated soldier’s kill count was ‘very high’.