Army

Defence Minister Richard Marles says the search for four missing personnel following a helicopter crash in the Whitsundays last Friday is now a ‘recovery’ effort.

Activity in Queensland's Whitsundays has changed from search and rescue, to a recovery mission, Defence Minister Richard Marles says. 

In the latest chapter in its troubled history, four people are feared dead after an Australian Army helicopter crashed into the ocean. It's not the first time concerns have been raised about Taipan choppers.

Gina Kekea was a young reporter at Solomon Islands national broadcaster when militants stormed the studio. Now, 20 years on, she hopes lessons have been learnt as her country faces an uncertain future.

Forging knives like a blacksmith was always a dream for this man. After a career in the defence and police force, it has become his latest way to serve others.

The family of Travis King is pleading for his safe return after he joined a tour of the demilitarised zone between North and South Korea and ran across the border.

Maria Barclay was just 17 years old when she enlisted in the Australian Defence Force and has told the Royal Commission into Defence and Veteran Suicide serving among very few women in the military has had traumatising consequences.

30,000 troops are preparing to take part in Australia's largest international military exercise, Talisman Sabre. It's the first time German forces will take part in the exercise amid rising tensions in the Indo-Pacific region.

Germany's army chief says his country wants to send a message it is interested in what is going on in the Indo-Pacific region as his troops take part in a major military exercise for the first time.

North Korea has stayed silent about the highly unusual entry of American soldier Private 2nd Class Travis King across the heavily fortified border with South Korea.

Several cars and trucks, including an army vehicle, have been involved in a collision near Rockhampton that's seen four people taken to hospital.

Two years after the Royal Commission into Defence and Veteran Suicide was formed, one of the commissioners tells the opening hearing in Adelaide that key themes to have emerged so far include a "terrible ADF culture" and "bullying, harassment, and abuses of power".

A defence review has recommended army personnel be brought in to help in natural disasters only in "extreme circumstances". 

Former special forces soldier Heston Russell is suing the ABC along with two journalists over a story published on television, radio and online on November 19, 2021.

When Captain Jesse Noble realised they were gender diverse, it felt like being "hit in the face with a truck". Their faith and their career in the army were at stake.

A judge who dismissed Ben Roberts-Smith’s defamation case placed weight on unreliable or improbable accounts from witnesses and "cherry-picked" from the testimony of others, the war veteran will argue during an appeal.

It is hoped the memorabilia room in Broken Hill's RSL sub-branch will become an independent entity by the end of the year.

The Federal Court had ordered the ABC to hand over documents that included the identity of a US Marine source, but the broadcaster refused to comply.

Once sworn enemies, Japanese and Australian soldiers are rapidly learning how to fight together as they stare down regional aggression.

In an historic first, Japanese soldiers have conducted live-fire drills in support of Australian troops, marking ever-closer defence ties between the two countries.

Legal invoices issued to Seven Network and Kerry Stokes's private company are among documents Nine Entertainment has won access to in the Federal Court.

A New York Times report, based on a US intelligence briefing, said General Sergei Surovikin had advance knowledge of the mutiny and that Russian authorities were checking if he was complicit.

Victoria Cross recipient Ben Roberts-Smith lost one of the most expensive legal cases in Australian history this month. Now he has agreed to pay the legal costs incurred by the defendants.

Russian President Vladimir Putin makes his first public address since the weekend uprising, making no mention of the mercenary leader Yevgeny Prigozhin.

Russia's President Vladimir Putin has used a late night address to promise Wagner troops can go to Belarus, join Russia, or be with their families.