Military Occupation

PTSD, anxiety and depression dogged Michael Jefferies after he left the military, but he was able to start healing in an unexpected place.

After last week's announcement of compulsory military service for Myanmar men and women over the age of 18,  the Thai embassy in Yangon was flooded with requests for tourist visas, with some youngsters sleeping in their cars overnight to get to the front of the queue.

After vying for Indonesia's top office for more than a decade, Prabowo Subianto is finally eyeing victory at this week's presidential election.

These elite agencies have one role: to ensure that from now on Israel is not unprepared and does not lose this new war with Hamas, writes John Lyons.

The town of Shlomi is one of dozens of communities within 2 kilometres of Israel's border with Lebanon that have been evacuated over fears that a second front line could open up in the north and drag in other regional players. Here's what the ABC found on a visit there.

Just over a month since Yevgeny Prigozhin's death in a plane crash, Troshev is tasked by President Vladimir Putin with overseeing volunteer fighter units in Ukraine.

Ukrainian special forces say they are "clarifying the information" following the appearance of a commander who had purportedly been killed.

On the front lines of Vladimir Putin's war in Ukraine, soldiers are facing a brutal onslaught. It's up to a volunteer team of medics, the Hospitallers Battalion, to evacuate the wounded back to safety in a race against the clock.

On Chinese social media, users referred to the Wagner chief by using the names of historical Chinese rebels to share their views on China's heavily censored internet.

The images taken from above the Kakhovka Dam show Russia had the means, motive and opportunity to bring down the structure.

The Ben Roberts-Smith verdict has reopened the wounds of a shameful period of Australian military history that demonstrates how the leadership of the ADF has failed, writes Mick Ryan.

Western nations have stepped up the provision of weapons to Ukraine. While this will be key to helping Ukraine confront the Russians, there are two other aspects of combat power which are even more vital, writes Mick Ryan.

In authoritarian regimes, competent soldiers are less important than loyal ones. And, as Russia's General Valery Gerasimov may find out in the future, they also make excellent scapegoats for tyrants wishing to save their own skin, writes Mick Ryan.

It is estimated some 73,000 people have already fled to Sudan's neighbouring countries.

The family of a Japanese journalist killed while reporting on Myanmar's 2007 "Saffron Revolution", release footage from a recently obtained video camera missing since his fatal shooting 15 years ago.

A ground assault by the Taliban has killed the Islamic State militant who spearheaded the August 2021 suicide bombing at the Kabul International Airport during the chaotic US withdrawal from Afghanistan.

The new "Plan Anzac" cooperation agreement will allow both armies to share operational intelligence and technology as New Zealand's new PM prepares to meet Anthony Albanese in Australia.