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There’s a way to get refugees out of Afghanistan after this week’s deadline — if the Taliban agrees

  Picture: Jose Luis Magana/AP US President Joe Biden’s deadline of August 31 to complete US evacuation efforts from Afghanistan is fast approaching in the...

An Afghan American scholar describes his fear-filled journey from the chaos at Kabul airport to a plane bound for home in the US

      The author was in this crowd, finally boarding a plane to leave Kabul. Photo: Hanif Sufizada   Note: Afghan scholar Hanif Sufizada, who works at...

Owning up: Australia must admit its involvement in Afghanistan has been an abject failure

  Picture: Cpl Ricky Fuller/Australian Department of Defence/AAP Twenty years ago, Australian forces followed the US into Afghanistan in the wake of the September 11...

Afghan refugees can no longer wait — Australia must offer permanent protection now

  Picture: Stringer/EPA Just hours after the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan, Australia joined the international community in calling for the “safe and orderly departure of foreign nationals...

Sunday essay: how ‘Afghan’ coats left Kabul for the fashion world and became a hippie must-have

  Making Afghan coats for sale in Herat, 1974. Shutterstock The London launch of Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band in May 1967 was a musical and...

Incomplete strategy and niche contributions — Australia leaves Afghanistan after 20 years

  Picture: Department of Defence/AAP Prime Minister Scott Morrison has declared Australia will withdraw its remaining 80 troops from Afghanistan by September, marking the end of its...

The Anzac legend has blinded Australia to its war atrocities. It’s time for a reckoning

Australian soldiers in the trenches at Anzac Cove on the Gallipoli peninsula in Turkey in 1915.  State Library of Victoria/Wikimedia Commons For years, Australians have...

Changing the culture of our SAS forces is no easy fix. Instead, we need to face the true costs of war

AP Image/Australian Department of Defence Australians will be disheartened by the inspector-general of the Australian Defence Force’s report on war crimes committed by our special forces...

Biden wins – experts on what it means for race relations, US foreign policy and the Supreme Court

Time to embrace a new White House agenda? Jonathan Newton /The Washington Post via Getty Images The American public has had its say and...

The reputation of Australia’s special forces is beyond repair — it’s time for them to be disbanded

Australian Department of Defence Four years into a constant stream of misconduct allegations, it’s hard to know how to process the latest revelations about the actions...
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