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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

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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
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
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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
Ben Roberts-Smith didn’t seem like a man with nothing to hide when Chris Masters questioned him.

A man with something to hide: The day I put tough questions to Ben Roberts-Smith

The more we spoke, the more his guard appeared to slip.

  • Chris Masters
Seven West Media chairman Kerry Stokes said the decision did not match what he knew of Ben Roberts-Smith.

Big loss for Stokes and Seven in Ben Roberts-Smith defamation costs battle

The patrons of the disgraced war hero do not agree they should bear the costs of his failed defamation action against The Age, The Sydney Morning Herald and the Canberra Times.

  • Harriet Alexander
Ben Roberts-Smith leaves the offices of a bankruptcy lawyer on Thursday morning.

Roberts-Smith agrees to pay costs of failed defamation, visits bankruptcy lawyer

The disgraced war veteran has agreed to pay the legal costs of his failed defamation action, but his billionaire backer Kerry Stokes will fight on against any repayments.

  • Harriet Alexander

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