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As China threat rises, can Aukus alliance recover from rancorous birth?
Questions mount about pact’s ultimate purpose and implications for other Asean countriesIt was initially seen …
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Satellite images show China has built mock-ups of US warships
Sighting renews concerns over Beijing’s capability and intentions as tensions rise over South China SeaSatelli…
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‘Honest mistake’: US strike that killed Afghan civilians was legal – Pentagon
Investigation finds civilian deaths did not violate law as strike attempted to target Islamic StateA Pentagon …
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China’s hypersonic glider weapons test threatens to drive new arms race
Analysis: China recently tested a nuclear-capable manoeuvrable missile and Russia and the US have their own pr…
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North Korea has fired ballistic missile into sea, says South
Launch, possibly from a submarine, comes as US, South Korean and Japanese spy chiefs meet for talks in SeoulNo…
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Secret group of US military trainers has been in Taiwan for at least a year
Small contingent of US special forces and marines training local forces in latest sign of rising US-China tens…
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Inside the CIA’s secret Kabul base, burned out and abandoned in haste
A Taliban commander invited the media to inspect the site where America plotted killing raids and tortured pri…
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Blame-shifting over US withdrawal ignores deeper failings in Afghanistan
Analysis: Senators’ questions to military leadership a contest in sharing out responsibility for failuresThe d…
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US Afghanistan withdrawal a ‘logistical success but strategic failure’, Milley says
General and other military leaders in heated cross-examinationMilley defends loyalty to country and rejects su…
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Mark Milley, US general who stood up to Trump, founders over Kabul strike
Civilian deaths in US drone strike deal blow to credibility of chairman of the joint chiefs of staff when he n…
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China warns US-UK-Australia pact could ‘hurt own interests’
Aukus described as ‘exclusionary’ amid French anger at scrapping of $90bn submarine deal with AustraliaChina h…
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US drone strike mistakenly targeted Afghan aid worker, investigation finds
Zemari Ahmadi, who died alongside nine others had no connection to terrorism, a New York Times investigation s…
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The Afghanistan Papers review: superb exposé of a war built on lies
Craig Whitlock of the Washington Post used freedom of information to produce the definitive US version of the …
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‘The intensity has not changed’: Jason Kander on the fall of Afghanistan – and trying to get friends out
The Missouri Democrat has been described as a possible president – but for now he’s focused on healing wounds …
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‘I’m not Rambo’: Republican unrepentant about attempt to enter Afghanistan
Congressman Markwayne Mullin, criticized for rogue rescue effort, says he would do it again ‘without hesitatio…