Afghanistan
- Opinion
- Modern slavery
Unspeakable violence against girls and women meets global silence
Australia has just introduced a world-leading sanctions regime against the Taliban, an important but insufficient step as the world turns away.
- Virginia Haussegger
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- Roberts-Smith case
AFP fails to identify leak that cruelled Ben Roberts-Smith war crimes investigation
The Australian Federal Police has finally released embarrassing documents showing it still cannot identify the source of a damaging tip-off.
- Michael Bachelard and Nick McKenzie
- Analysis
- US politics
The National Guard shooter fired at America’s heart. The response will be brutal
In this already febrile climate around immigration, the attack has set off a visceral response. And it is not limited to Afghan refugees.
- Michael Koziol
National Guard member dies after shooting in Washington, DC
Donald Trump announced the 20-year-old had died in his first live remarks since the shooting two blocks from the White House.
- Michael Koziol
Inside the CIA’s secret mission to sabotage Afghanistan’s opium
Clandestine night flights dropped billions of genetically modified seeds over poppy fields in a classified mission to disrupt the country’s lucrative opium trade.
- Warren P. Strobel
Firefights erupt between Pakistani and Afghan forces along border
Pakistani security officials said they were responding “with full force” to what they called unprovoked firing from Afghanistan amid rising tensions between the two countries.
- Mohammad Yunus Yawar, Mushtaq Ali and Saeed Shah
Taliban internet blackout paralyses Afghanistan, cutting it off from the world
The shutdown has disrupted nearly all digital and phone links, grounded planes, shut businesses and severed one of the last lifelines for many women and girls whose lives the regime have increasingly restricted.
- Rick Noack and Haq Nawaz Khan
- Analysis
- Donald Trump
Five takeaways from Trump’s unusual speech to military elite
Trump’s sprawling, campaign-style speech to an auditorium of impassive uniformed officers veered away from military matters, and trumpeted his position on an array of cultural issues instead.
- Minho Kim
‘He went where others weren’t’: War correspondent John Martinkus dies
The Melbourne-born war correspondent made his name reporting on East Timor.
- Kerrie O'Brien
Australian War Memorial changes book prize rules to reject Ben Roberts-Smith exposé
When the judges announced acclaimed journalist Chris Masters as the winner, it proved a step too far for the institution.
- Kerrie O'Brien
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