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A special forces soldier on the ground in Afghanistan.

War crimes investigator launches raids in major escalation

The elite anti-war crimes agency probing Ben Roberts-Smith and other ex-SAS soldiers has conducted raids in Perth.

  • Chris Masters and Nick McKenzie

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Ben Roberts-Smith (left) with a former colleague drinking from the prosthetic leg of a dead Afghan man in 2012.

Investigators probe Ben Roberts-Smith over more murders and video drinking from dead man’s prosthetic limb

A secretive and powerful investigation into the disgraced soldier has uncovered damning fresh evidence as well as video of him drinking from a prosthetic leg, which he denied under oath.

  • Nick McKenzie
Hazratullah Sardar was 14 when his father, Haji Sardar, was killed in their southern Afghanistan village.

‘Absolutely gutted’: Cases dropped against soldiers over notorious war crimes allegations

Former Australian troops accused of killing civilians in Afghanistan will not face prosecution over two notorious alleged war crimes.

  • Nick McKenzie
Defence Minister Richard Marles this week stripped officers of medals.

Caution is needed, but war crime investigation delays are of concern

The Office of the Special Investigator needs to proceed carefully but every day that justice is delayed increases the chances that it will be denied.

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Ben Roberts-Smith outside Federal Court in May 2022.

Ben Roberts-Smith welcomed at Defence party days before Marles strips officers’ medals

The war criminal attended a gala to mark a Special Air Service Regiment anniversary days before the government stripped officers of honours earned in Afghanistan.

  • Nick McKenzie and Matthew Knott
Defence Minister Richard Marles paid tribute to military personnel as he closed his remarks on the Brereton report.

‘National shame’: Richard Marles strips medals from Afghanistan war commanders

Opposition defence spokesman Andrew Hastie choked with emotion as he said “our soldiers must tell the truth, and those in leadership must seek it out”.

  • Matthew Knott
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Decorated special forces veteran Ben Roberts-Smith lost a defamation case against The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald.

‘Unconscionable’: UN experts slam delay in compensating alleged Afghan war crime victims

The experts also called on the Australian War Memorial in Canberra to stop celebrating disgraced soldier Ben Roberts-Smith after a damning defamation judgment.

  • Matthew Knott

A wartime lie became an 83-year-old secret. Now the truth can be told

The death of my heroic friend means his courage in a moment of crisis can finally be revealed.

  • Anson Cameron
Ben Roberts-Smith outside the Federal Court in Sydney last year.

War crimes investigators given access to restricted documents in Roberts-Smith case

There are numerous active investigations into alleged criminal offences by members of the Australian Defence Force in Afghanistan.

  • Michaela Whitbourn
The MPs asked the Defence Department to detail the “specific circumstances which led to the deterioration of this mission-critical asset over the last five or more years”.

‘Seriously disturbed’: MPs alarmed by disrepair at secretive military facility

Facilities at one of the nation’s most secretive and important military stations need to be upgraded urgently, a bipartisan parliamentary committee has warned.

  • Matthew Knott

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