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After the International Court of Justice ruled in favour of Kosovo’s independence (22.7.10), outside observers signalled a “business as usual” approach towards the territory, and efforts to help achieve a settlement of its dispute with Serbia. … Read More »
The remains of some 250 soldiers killed in the infamous battle of Fromelles, and lost for 90 years, have been formally re-buried in the new military cemetery there. … Read More »
A commentary from the International Crisis Group offers an explanation of recent moves by the Turkish government, out of step with Europe or the United States … and urges that engagement with the European Union should keep its high priority. … Read More »
One Australian soldier has been killed and one wounded (10.7.10) in another explosion of a roadside bomb (an Improvised Explosive Device – IED), in Afghanistan’s Uruzgan province. It happened on the day of another soldier’s memeorial service in Darwin. … Read More »
Three Australian commandos have died (21.6.10) when the helicopter taking them in to action crashed, in the Northern Kandahar province of Afghanistan.
Among fifteen on board, a soldier from one of the allied countries was also killed, and seven Australians survived — though all seven have been injured, two of them very seriously. … Read More »
Dutch elections (9.6.10) have seen the outgoing government party, the Christian Democrats, take heavy losses, with prospects of an ill-fitting coalition to follow. … Read More »
Two Australian soldiers have been killed on patrol in Afghanistan’s Oruzgan Province, during a day in which altogether ten soldiers from the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) lost their lives (8.6.10). … Read More »