Australia Sends 50 Logistical Experts to Iraq
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Australia will send 50 logistical experts to Iraq to train the newly established Iraqi defense force. Australian Defense Minister Robert Hill said yesterday that those experts would be in the regular rotation of Australia&#39;s active force in Iraq.
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from Britain, Australia, America, and countless other countries -- will be in action to make Iraq safer. In
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Contract killers are being offered as little as &#36;50 to target coalition soldiers in Iraq, the commander of Australian forces said in a newspaper interview published Sunday.
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Australia and the United States are set to become even closer allies under proposals to allow the US military to test new-generation weaponry in Australia, a defence consultant said.
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Australia purchases five new warships, as part of plans to boost its military capacity.
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Australia is considering sending more troops to Afghanistan to counter resurgent Taliban and Al-Qaeda fighters, Defence Minister Brendan Nelson said Thursday.
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SYDNEY : Australia will spend 591 million dollars (460 million US) boosting security at its overseas missions in the aftermath of the Jakarta embassy bombing in September, the government said.
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Australia, which is already training the new Iraqi police and military forces, has been asked to help train Iraq's intelligence and security officers.
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Australia is to spend A$48m (US$35m) increasing security against possible terrorist threats at regional airports around the country.
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All 225 Australians known to be in Iraq have been accounted for, Australia&#39;s foreign office has said, two days after an unconfirmed report that two citizens had been taken hostage and threatened with execution.
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Australia is considering sending more military trainers to Iraq but does not plan to increase its combat forces there, Prime Minister John Howard said Monday.
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Australia and the United States launched their biggest joint war games Monday, with 27,500 troops backed by a U.S. aircraft carrier engaging in exercises aimed at consolidating the allies' military dominance in the Asia Pacific region.
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The Prime Minister with a partially built Collins-class submarine in Adelaide yesterday. Photo: Penny Bradfield. Iraq&#39;s interim Government has requested that Australian troops
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Australian troops were due to arrive in the troubled Solomon Islands on Thursday in a show of force after the killing of an Australian peacekeeper, the first casuality under Canberra&#39;s tougher South Pacific security policy.
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Australia will send an extra 150  troops to Afghanistan due to the deteriorating security  situation, Prime Minister John Howard said on Wednesday,  briefly boosting Canberra's commitment to Afghanistan to more  than 600.
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Australia&#39;s Foreign Minister, Alexander Downer, says members of a logistics team are heading to Iraq, in case any Australians have been taken hostage.
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Vice President Dick Cheney arrives in Australia on Thursday to thank one of Washington's staunchest supporters of the increasingly unpopular Iraq war &#151; an ally that has become a rarity by offering more, not fewer, troops for Iraq and Afghanistan.