Declassified documents reveal what John Howard's cabinet considered, and ignored, when sending troops to Afghanistan.

In a six-week period, the Howard government made two decisions that would reverberate through Australian politics for the ...

The Australian government was warned against sending special forces to Afghanistan by its own defence minister in 2005, who ...

Defence officials told AFP that forces and assets were deployed as part of "Operation APEC Assist", which came at the request of the Papua New Guinea government.. Australia has deployed special forces ...

Australia is grappling with trying to investigate veterans accused of misconduct during the long war in Afghanistan, while the price tag for litigation keeps rising. The Australian government has ...

Ministry of Defence officials have been accused of putting the Special Forces at risk by revealing what would-be recruits must do to join the elite services. They have angered veterans of the famously ...

The Australian Capital Territory’s Court of Appeal yesterday rejected a bid by David McBride to have his sentence reduced, as well as a challenge by the whistleblower against the authoritarian legal ...

Previously confidential cabinet papers from 2005 show key Howard ministers and government departments recommended against sending Australian special forces back into Afghanistan in 2005. Plus, Germany ...

SYDNEY, Nov 19 (Reuters) - The head of Australia's Defence Force announced on Thursday allegations that its special forces soldiers carried out 39 unlawful killings in Afghanistan. Australia in 2016 ...