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Lawyers for the longest-held prisoner in the U.S. war against terrorism have begun a new legal offensive in multiple courts aimed at securing his release from Guantánamo Bay. The prisoner, known as Abu Zubaydah, was captured in Pakistan in March 2002 in a raid by U.S. and Pakistani security services. …

The facade of the apartment building was blown off, the remains sagging to one side. Working together, the military police, the emergency services, the fire department and the explosives team cordoned off the scene, swept for other explosives, disarmed one, and searched for those still alive in the rubble with …

Normal text sizeLarger text sizeVery large text size Named for the Greek goddess of war, nourished by data from the CSIRO’s Black Mountain fire lab and propelled by AI, a new weapon lies in the headquarters of the authorities presiding over a state primed to burn. The new fire modelling …

Normal text sizeLarger text sizeVery large text size A labyrinth of World War II tunnels under Garden Island appears as ready today as it was when first excavated in a hurry more than 80 years ago. The base’s underground network was dug out of sandstone starting in 1941 after the …

Under the guise of saving refugees, the United Arab Emirates is running an elaborate covert operation to back one side in Sudan’s spiraling war — supplying powerful weapons and drones, treating injured fighters and airlifting the most serious cases to one of its military hospitals, according to a dozen current …

The world spends at least $22 billion every year to kill mosquitoes that spread malaria, dengue and other devastating diseases. That money buys billions of liters of insecticides, millions of kilograms of larvicides and 75 million insecticide-treated bed nets. Hundreds of millions more dollars are poured into research each year …

Powerful reporting in war-torn Ukraine by The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age has been recognised with a prestigious award that celebrates Australia’s best coverage of global affairs. Photojournalist Kate Geraghty and former national security correspondent Anthony Galloway took home the 2023 Lowy Institute Media Award on Thursday night for …

Key Points Paula Sanchez was jailed and tortured in Chile by Augustus Pinochet’s regime, members of which live in Sydney. The Australian Centre for International Justice says Australia risks becoming a “a safe haven for perpetrators of atrocity crimes.” It called for the establishment of a permanent special unit to …

Normal text sizeLarger text sizeVery large text size No, Nyunggai Warren Mundine, you are wrong: the Uluru Statement is a document of grace and generosity (“Plea for peace as Mundine invokes war”, September 27). Your National Press Club comments were disgraceful. The statement is not a declaration of war, nor …

War crimes investigators and the Australian Federal Police have been granted access to restricted documents on the court file in Ben Roberts-Smith’s failed defamation case amid active investigations into allegations Australian soldiers broke the rules of engagement in Afghanistan. Federal Court Justice Robert Bromwich on Wednesday altered national security orders …

KYIV, Ukraine — Six weeks after Russia launched its full-scale invasion, Ukraine sank the flagship of Russia’s Black Sea Fleet, dealing a serious blow to the enemy navy, and, a Ukrainian official said, killing the ship’s captain. “We do not mourn,” an adviser to the interior minister at the time, …

But there is always room for hope because neither autocracy nor democracy is a simple force, nor are they locked in a zero-sum struggle. The rise of autocrats since the fall of Communism has not been a unitary narrative; it has been a broad and varied collection of stories about …

The news he had dreaded arrived a few minutes before midnight. For weeks, Bahaadin Adam had heard nothing from family members stuck in the fighting that convulsed Nyala, the capital of South Darfur state and the second largest city in Sudan. Mr. Adam, who had fled weeks before to neighboring …

He told this masthead the tension between potential and current councillors had escalated and was becoming increasingly abusive and personal. City of Swan former mayor and election candidate Kevin Bailey said tensions were high in the race for the October 21 vote.Credit: Facebook “Nobody deserves that kind of treatment, whether …

Key Points Azerbaijani officials say they have broken through an Armenian barricade in Nagorno-Karabakh. Armenia has denied having forces in the area. According to Ethnic Armenians, two people were killed and 23 were injured in the conflict. Azerbaijan has begun what it called an “anti-terrorist operation” targeting Armenian military positions …

Key Points Azerbaijani officials say they have broken through an Armenian barricade in Nagorno-Karabakh. Armenia has denied having forces in the area. According to Ethnic Armenians, two people were killed and 23 were injured in the conflict. Azerbaijan has started what it called an “anti-terrorist operation” targeting Armenian military positions …