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Australian Broadcasting Corporation
| 9 months ago
Australia won't follow NZ in early Afghan pull-out Updated September 04, 2012 09:38:00 Prime Minister Julia Gillard says Australia remains committed to seeing through its mission in Afghanistan, despite New Zealand's decision to bring forward its...
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The Australian
| 9 months ago
Gillard says she has looked into the eyes of the families of Australian soldiers killed in Afghanistan and remains convinced it is the right call to keep troops there to finish the mission. The Prime Minister, who has already attended 19 funerals,...
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The Age
| 9 months ago
Ms Gillard said every life lost in combat was a tragedy, both for the nation and particularly for the families forced to farewell a loved one. Five Australian soldiers died last week in the worst 24-hour period of Australia's decade-long involvement...
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Channel NewsAsia
| 9 months ago
Australia Monday flatly rejected comments from Afghan President Hamid Karzai that a recent night-time raid which left two men dead was carried out without the approval of local authorities...But Smith said the operation in restive Uruzgan province...
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The Australian
| 9 months ago
Prime Minister Julia Gillard, Defence Minister Stephen Smith and the Defence Department did not return calls last night. The moves will raise new questions over Australia's presence in Afghanistan as the commitment faced further pressure after...
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Channel NewsAsia
| 9 months ago
Australian Foreign Minister Bob Carr on Sunday acknowledged the nation's weariness with the Afghan conflict after five more troop deaths but warned of "enormous" damage to its image if it pulled out now. Carr said an accelerated Australian withdrawal...
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New Zealand Infotech Weekly
| 9 months ago
Australian foreign minister Bob Carr says an early withdrawal of troops from Afghanistan would damage the country's reputation...The deaths of five diggers in 24 hours in Afghanistan last week prompted fresh criticism of Australia's continued...
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New Zealand Infotech Weekly
| 9 months ago
Heavy casualties on both sides of the Tasman have prompted calls for an early withdrawal of troops from Afghanistan, but United States secretary of state Hillary Clinton says coalition forces will see the mission out. New Zealand lost five soldiers...
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Australian Broadcasting Corporation
| 9 months ago
The United States has urged Australia not to lose sight of the progress made in Afghanistan after the deaths of five diggers this week. Three Australian soldiers were killed in a shooting attack by a rogue Afghan soldier on Wednesday, the same day...
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Adelaide Now
| 9 months ago
The soldiers were shot dead by a member of the Afghan National Army at a patrol base north of Tarin Kowt. The five deaths made it the worst day of combat losses since the Vietnam War. A spokesman for the Department of Defence said preparations were...
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Channel NewsAsia
| 9 months ago
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton Friday said she was gratified by Australia's resolve to see its Afghan mission through, as the nation's worst combat losses since Vietnam prompted questions about the war. Australia suffered its worst day in the...
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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
| 9 months ago
Five Australian soldiers were killed in southern Afghanistan within hours of one another on Wednesday and Thursday, three of them at the hands of a turncoat Afghan soldier, making it the deadliest period in a decade of fighting here for one of the...
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The Age
| 9 months ago
Australian leaders seek to salve the grief with epithets about noble sacrifices in the field...These are difficult times for leaders to persuade constituents that such losses are worthwhile...It is not past time to debate where Australia and...
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Sydney Morning Herald
| 9 months ago
The names of the trio he killed were withheld yesterday, as General Hurley said the families still wanted privacy. He did, however, release the identities of the two commandos killed on Thursday morning in the US helicopter crash in Helmand province.
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United Press International
| 9 months ago
In the insider attacks, a turncoat Afghan soldier opened fire on the Australians in Oruzgan province, the Times said...Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard , who interrupted her visit to the Cook Islands to return to Canberra, said the deaths were...
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Australian Broadcasting Corporation
| 9 months ago
The Greens and independent MP Andrew Wilkie have renewed their calls for the troops to be brought home now rather than at the end of 2014 as planned. But Julia Gillard and Defence chief General David Hurley say that would not be in Australia's...
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Salem News
| 9 months ago
Garmser district of restive southern Helmand province Thursday morning. The following is the coalition's air crash incidents in Afghanistan so far in 2012...On Aug. 16 -- Seven U.S. troops, three Afghan soldiers and a local translator were killed...
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Channel NewsAsia
| 9 months ago
Australia said on Friday it would complete its mission in Afghanistan despite suffering its deadliest day in combat since the Vietnam War and the prospect of further deaths caused by rogue soldiers. Defence Minister Stephen Smith said the "terrible...
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The Age
| 9 months ago
He is survived by his partner, parents and sister," Gen Hurley told reporters in Canberra...He served for five years, left in 2004 and then re-enlisted in 2005. He was deployed to East Timor and was on his sixth deployment to Afghanistan. "Corporal...
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International Business Times
| 9 months ago
Heartbreaking losses in the past two days will not break the resolve of Australia to complete its Afghan Mission, Prime Minister Julia Gillard said on Thursday following the deaths of five diggers on Wednesday, three of them killed by 'green-on-blue'...
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Australian Broadcasting Corporation
| 9 months ago
Defence Minister Stephen Smith says Australia remains committed to "staying the course" in Afghanistan, after the ADF suffered its worst day in combat operations since the Vietnam War...Another two special forces soldiers died in an unrelated...
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Sydney Morning Herald
| 9 months ago
I start by expressing my deepest condolences to the families, the friends and the mates of the five Australian soldiers who have been killed in two separate incidents in Afghanistan over the last day or so," he told reporters in Perth. Mr Smith also...
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The Daily Telegraph
| 9 months ago
MP Andrew Wilkie has accused former prime ministers John Howard and Kevin Rudd and Prime Minister Julia Gillard of having "blood on their hands" following the death of five soldiers in Afghanistan this week. Five Australian soldiers died in the worst...
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Palestine Chronicle
| 9 months ago
45 08/30/2012 Three US Marines and six soldiers have escaped criminal prosecution in connection with the videotaped urination on the corpses of slain Afghans and the burning of copies of the Koran in two separate incidents that provoked bloody unrest...
