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The four-phase plan has made nuclear arms control experts nervous … here’s whyAukus: nuclear submarines deal will cost Australia up to $368bnIn a tripartite deal with the US and the UK, Australia has unveiled a plan to acquire a fleet of up to eight nu…
Read MoreThis blog is now closed.Penny Wong hits back at China’s claim Aukus nuclear submarines will fuel an arms raceGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastDaniel Hurst is out of the Aukus lockup – here is his first take.The m…
Read MoreLt Gen Ingo Gerhartz suggests that Europe’s commitment to Australia and other partners in the region needs to be ‘really visible’Get our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastGermany’s air force chief has said his country is …
Read MoreOn 12 April 2009, the SAS arrive in the village of Kakarak in Afghanistan’s Uruzgan province. It’s a Taliban stronghold where an Australian soldier was killed just a month earlier. It’s here, in a compound known as Whiskey 108, that one of the most con…
Read MoreIn the aftermath of an attack on Australian soldiers by a rogue Afghan soldier, the SAS is sent to the Taliban-controlled village of Darwan. They arrive by helicopter at dawn, looking for Hekmatullah, the soldier who shot dead three of their comrades. …
Read MoreMany prisoners released under the US-Taliban deal took up arms again and then overran KabulGet our free news app, morning email briefing or daily news podcastMany of the Taliban freed under the Doha Agreement took up arms, providing a deadly illustrati…
Read MoreThe withdrawal of allied troops from Afghanistan a year ago led to desperate scenes as refugees tried to escape the Taliban. One man tells his family’s story Continue reading…
Read MoreExclusive: Father of one of three soldiers slain by Hekmatullah says Australia was ‘sidelined’ in deal between US and Taliban to release terrorist from prisonGet Guardian Australia’s free news app, morning email briefing and daily news podcastThe fam…
Read MoreGlobal Times quotes comments by foreign ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin on military encounters in the South China SeaChina has accused Australia of provocation in the South China Sea and said Australia – along with the United States and Canada – must “r…
Read MoreExclusive: Freedom-of-information investigation reveals error in urgent submission to then minister Marise PayneGet our free news app, morning email briefing and daily news podcastA file number bungle by an Australian government department caused a fou…
Read MorePacific nation has batted away concerns from Australia, New Zealand and the US, saying its policy is ‘friends to all and enemies to none’Download the free Guardian app; get our morning email briefingSolomon Islands has announced it is pushing ahead wit…
Read MoreExclusive: Previously secret papers show charter flight considered ‘high risk’ a month before Kabul fell to TalibanGet our free news app; get our morning email briefingThe Australian government was warned in mid-July that the worsening security situati…
Read MoreAnalysis: Joe Biden has cleared the decks to focus on China. But how imminent is the danger?It may have been an inelegantly, even ineptly, executed pivot, gratuitously alienating key allies, but by leaving Afghanistan and forming the Australian, US and…
Read MoreAnalysis: Joe Biden has cleared the decks to focus on China. But how imminent is the danger?It may have been an inelegantly, even ineptly, executed pivot, gratuitously alienating key allies, but by leaving Afghanistan and forming the Australian, US and…
Read MoreRevelations that Australia knew about atrocities by Indonesian military but did nothing are ‘deeply disturbing’, Human Rights Watch says• Get our free news app; get our morning email briefingHuman rights groups say revelations that Australia sat on its…
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