Afghanistan

ANZAC DAYDefence

Tour of duty inspires honour

Curtis McGrath lost both his legs when he stepped on a landmine in Afghanistan in 2012, but not the will to excel.

Jamie Walker

The World

In this Sunday, March 19, 2017 photo, children play in their home in Kabul, Afghanistan. An aid group said Wednesday, March 22, 2017 that nearly a third of all children in war-torn Afghanistan are unable to attend school, leaving them at increased risk of child labor, recruitment by armed groups, early marriage and other forms of exploitation. (AP Photos/Massoud Hossaini)

Ex-refugees swamp Afghan schools

Almost half a million Afghan children will be forced to drop out of school this year.

Amanda Hodge

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30/01/17. Sydney, Australia. Photograph by Julian Andrews. Portraits of Mahir Momand, the CEO of a new microfinance company 'Thrive', pictured on Pyrmont Bridge in Sydney. Mahir is an Afghan refugee who has been in Australia for 5 years and is setting up 'Thrive' as a microfinance business for refugees.

Taliban target guiding others

Businessman Mahir Momand was driving home for lunch in Kabul in 2012 when he was shot in the shoulder by the Taliban.

Glenda Korporaal

The World

Army Capt. Matthew Ball poses for a portrait at the Stanford University law school Monday, Jan. 30, 2017, in Stanford, Calif. Ball said his interpreter Qismat Amin, who has been living in hiding after getting threats from Taliban and Islamic state fighters, got his visa Sunday, after nearly four years of interviews. Ball bought him a $1,000 plane ticket to San Francisco and plans to meet him at the airport with an attorney. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)

Vets condemn risk to interpreters

Soldiers say they gave their word to people who helped Americans that the US would protect them and their families.

The Weekend Australian Magazine

TWAM-20170121 EMBARGO FOR TWAM 21 JAN 2017 NO REUSE WITHOUT PERMISSION Terry Tangnye, mercenary Pic : courtesy Felicity O'Neill

Blood, milk and coke

How did a Sydney milkman end up in a hit squad sent to kill drug lord Pablo Escobar?

Mark Schliebs and Trent Dalton

TAKING ON TERROR

An Afghan man ride his bicycle in front of the office of the Agency Coordinating Body for Afghan Relief (ACBAR) in Kabul, Afghanistan, Sunday, Nov. 6, 2016. An Australian woman has been kidnapped from the Afghan capital Kabul by unknown gunmen. An official with the Kabul police chief's office, speaking on condition of anonymity in line with regulations, confirmed on Sunday that the woman was abducted the previous night and that she works for the Agency Coordinating Body for Afghan Relief or ACBAR. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)

Gunmen snatch Aussie woman

An Australian woman has been kidnapped in Kabul, the third Australian abducted in Afghanistan this year.

Greg Bearup

The World

Elite troops to push back Taliban

Commandos have been deployed to Lashkar Gah to stop a Taliban advance.

Greg Bearup

The World

Donors meet to boost Afghanistan

The world’s rich nations are meeting in Brussels this week to determine how best to prop-up a blighted Afghanistan.

Greg Bearup

Defence

Taliban moves to take Oruzgan

The security situation in the Afghan province is causing serious mental health issues for veterans who served there.

Greg Bearup

David Kilcullen

Afghan security forces take a wounded civilian man to the hospital after Taliban fighter's attack, in Kunduz city, north of Kabul, Afghanistan, Saturday, Oct. 3, 2015. Three staff from Doctors Without Borders were killed and 30 were missing after an explosion near their hospital in the northern Afghan city of Kunduz that may have been caused by a U.S. airstrike. (AP Photo/Dehsabzi)

Hard and soft approach to Taliban

Afghanistan’s two-year-old government faces an array of complex challenges.

David Kilcullen

The World

A police officers in safety vests guards near the Hotel Fuerstenhof in Leipzig, Germany, Tuesday Sept. 6, 2016. The police sealed off the hotel following a terror warning. ( Police in the eastern city of Leipzig, Germany, are investigating an anonymous threat of an attack against a hotel and have established a heavy police presence in front of the building. Police spokesman Alexander Bertram said the upscale Fuerstenhof hotel received an anonymous phone call Tuesday. A search did not turn up anything suspicious. Sebastian Willnow/dpa via AP)

SEALs’ bid to rescue Aussie

US special forces launched a secret raid in Afghanistan last month in a failed bid to rescue an Australian academic.

Greg Bearup

The World

STRICT EMBARGO UNTIL MIDNIGHT MONDAY 28TH OCTOBER. The Prime Minister of Australia, Tony Abbott along with the Opposition Leader BIll Shorten and the Defence Minister Senator David Johnston visited the Australian diggers serving in Tarin Kowt in Uruzgan province, southern Afghanistan. The PM attended a military service at the memorial wall in Tarin Kowt as part of the bases closure in the next few weeks.

Taliban storm Tarin Kowt

The Afghan provincial city of Tarin Kowt is under heavy attack from the Taliban.

Greg Bearup

The World

Afghan security personnel investigate the site of a twin suicide bombing near the Ministry of Defense in Kabul on September 5, 2016. The death toll from a Taliban double suicide bombing in the Afghan capital Kabul jumped to 24 with 91 wounded, the health ministry said. / AFP PHOTO / WAKIL KOHSAR

Taliban blasts bounce off people to hit regime

The Taliban has shown, yet again, that it is able to strike at will in the Afghan capital.

Greg Bearup

Foreign Affairs

30/08/2016 President of Afghanistan Ashraf Ghani bestowes the High State Medal of Malalai upon aide worker Katherine Jane Wilson for her humanitarian services. Photo: Twitter

Rescued aid worker returns

An Australian aid worker abducted in Afghanistan in April and released last weekend was due to fly into Perth last night.

ANDREW BURRELL and GREG BEARUP

Foreign Affairs

West Australian aid worker Kerry Wilson, 60, kidnapped in Afghanistan. Picture: ABC/Twitter

Aussie aid worker freed

Australian aid worker Kerry Jane Wilson, who was kidnapped four months ago, has been rescued by Afghan troops.

Greg Bearup and Paige Taylor

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Freed Aussie’s debt to lawyer

Without US lawyer Kimberley Motley, former Australian soldier Robert Langdon would still be locked in an Afghan jail.

GREG BEARUP and MICHAEL OWEN

Defence

09/08/2016 Robert Langdon met by his Mum Noreen and dad Peter Langdon at Adelaide Airport after spending 7 years in a Afghan prison charged with murder. Kelly Barnes/The Australian

Ex-Digger’s return after pardon

Former Australian soldier who spent seven years in jail for the murder of an Afghan colleague returns home | WATCH

GREG BEARUP

Foreign Affairs

A car passes American University of Afghanistan in Kabul, Afghanistan, Monday, Aug. 8, 2016. Five gunmen wearing Afghan military uniforms abducted an American and an Australian in Kabul, a security official said Monday. Sediq Sediqqi, spokesman for the Afghan Interior Ministry, said that the two foreigners were taken from their SUV while driving on Sunday night on a main road near the university. They are believed to be employees of the university, he said. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)

Gunmen kidnap second Australian

An Australian and an American academic have been kidnapped by gunmen in Kabul.

Greg Bearup and Mark Schliebs

The World

Taliban bomb targets foreigners

The Taliban set off a huge truck bomb at a compound housing foreign workers in Kabul yesterday.

Greg Bearup

The World

Afghans help a man who was injured in a deadly explosion that struck a protest march by ethnic Hazaras, in Kabul, Afghanistan, Saturday, July 23, 2016. Afghan Health Ministry officials say tens of people have been killed and over 200 wounded in the bombing Saturday, that was claimed by the Islamic State group according to a statement posted on the IS-linked Aamaq online news agency. The protesters Saturday were demanding that a major regional electric power line be routed through their impoverished home province. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)

ISIS bombers kill 80 in Kabul

Islamic State has claimed responsibility for the deaths of Shia Hazaras when two bombs exploded at a protest.

Greg Bearup

Foreign Affairs

Kidnapped Kerry ‘will be coping’

Hermione Youngs tells The Australian she has known Kerry Jane Wilson for 20 years and she is ‘my closest friend’.

GREG BEARUP

Foreign Affairs

West Australian aid worker Kerry Wilson kidnapped

Kidnap victim ‘accepted dangers’

The Australian aid worker kidnapped in Afghanistan has always been pragmatic about the dangers of her job.

GREG BEARUP and Paige Taylor

EXCLUSIVEAnzac Day

Three soldiers killed in Afghanistan - Private Scott Palmer

A few beers for a loved son

Every Sunday Ray Palmer packs an Esky with four Coronas, and he and his wife Pam head to Darwin’s Thorak Cemetery.

GREG BEARUP

exclusiveForeign Affairs

Canadian Defence Minister Harjit Sajjan speaks exclusively to The Australian at the Canadian High Commission Residence in Canberra.

New face of intel wants our eyes

The Defence Minister in the government of Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is a turbaned Sikh, born in India.

BRENDAN NICHOLSON

Review

Image supplied for Afghanistan: Inside Australia's War Supplied by ABC TV Caption: Helicopters from the 86th airborne, a United States unit, provide eyes in the sky as Australian soldiers patrol in the Mirabad Valley Region. Mid Caption: A major operation conducted by Australian and Afghan National Army (ANA) Forces has experienced success, uncovering a significant number of caches to the east of Tarin Kowt, Oruzgan Province, Southern Afghanistan. Twenty-three caches have been found since the operation began on the 1st of January. The contents included Improvised Explosive Device (IED) components, rocket propelled grenades, mortars, home-made explosive and thousands of rounds of small arms ammunition. MRTF-2 Commanding Officer, Lieutenant Colonel Andrew Hocking, said like the caches located in December, these latest finds are helping to save lives. Deep Caption: Operation SLIPPER is Australia's military contribution to the international campaign against terrorism, piracy and improving maritime security. Under this operation our forces contribute to the efforts of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) - led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) in Afghanistan. ISAF seeks to bring security, stability and prosperity to Afghanistan and aims to prevent Afghanistan again becoming a safe haven for international terrorists. Operation SLIPPER also supports the United States led International Coalition Against Terrorism (ICAT) in the broader Middle East. Image supplied by Seven Network

Oh, what a weird war

A new documentary delves into the memories of survivors of Australia’s longest military encounter.

first watch: GRAEME BLUNDELL

Inquirer

Taliban regroups younger

But the rise of Islamic State in Afghanistan poses even more of a threat.

David Kilcullen

EXCLUSIVETAKING ON TERROR

Afghanistan on edge of abyss

There’s a serious danger of a collapse in Afghanistan with a third of the country captured by insurgents, an expert has warned.

BRENDAN NICHOLSON

Defence

19/02/2016: Afghanistan veteran John Bale holds a photo of his fallen friend Lt. Michael Fussell at Parliament House in Canberra. Stefan Postles/The Australian

Veterans’ fear: was it worth it?

John Bale joined the army with a close schoolmate after 9/11: now he runs a support group dedicated to helping veterans.

BRENDAN NICHOLSON

The World

An Afghan security personnel stands guard near the site of a suicide attack at the entrance to a police base in Kabul on February 1, 2016. A Taliban suicide bomber struck a police base in central Kabul on February1, killing at least nine people just days before a fresh round of international talks aimed at reviving dialogue with the Islamist group. AFP PHOTO / WAKIL KOHSAR

20 die in Taliban attack on police HQ

The Taliban has claimed responsibility for a suicide blast outside a police headquarters in Kabul that killed 20.

Greg Bearup

The World

Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull (second right) is welcomed by Afghan President Dr Ashraf Ghani (right) during a ceremonial welcome at the Presidential Palace in Kabul, Afghanistan, Sunday, Jan. 17, 2016. Turnbull has made a day-long trip to Afghanistan ahead of talks with Barack Obama in Washington. (AAP Image/Fairfax Media Pool, Alex Ellinghausen) NO ARCHIVING

US licensed to kill new ISIS cell

The White House has given US troops legal authority to target Islamic State in Afghanistan.

Greg Bearup

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