Afghan Australians celebrated both Nowruz,or New Year,and the Muslim festival of Eid al-Fitr in Dandenong on Sunday.
Truth has been a stranger to wars of the past,and remains alien to current wars.
This week a US general warned ISIS-K “retains the capability and the will to attack US and Western interests abroad in as little as six months with little to no warning.”
Seven months after the invasion of Iraq,the Defence Department said it was time to cut Australia’s troop presence. Secret documents reveal how the plan was thwarted.
Whistleblowers are often complicated people – take David McBride,who will soon discover his punishment for leaking classified military documents.
The regime usually hits out via proxies in the Middle East but now it has launched a direct attack. How did Iran get here – and can the era of the ayatollahs last?
Boat arrivals in Australia last week has again cast light on Indonesia’s treatment of refugees,and Australia’s role in their care.
The newspapers defending former soldier Ben Roberts-Smith’s defamation appeal say one of their key witnesses gave truthful evidence about a murder.
The witnesses – who detailed the killing of villager Ali Jan by Australian soldier Ben Roberts-Smith – should be believed,despite efforts by the disgraced soldier’s legal team to undermine their credibility,a court has been told.
Former military lawyer David McBride’s legal team hoped he would avoid jail because he exposed problems in the national interest. Now they are thinking the worst.
The move comes less than 24 hours after two bomb blasts targeted the offices of different political leaders in north-west Balochistan province.