As the Trump era begins, Australian are having an overdue debate about the need for greater self-reliance at a time when American power may be receding.
The Libyan rebel leader Abdel Hakim Belhaj who has won the right to sue former British foreign secretary Jack Straw.
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America appears as divided over key aspects of foreign policy as it is at home. So how does President-elect Trump hope to handle that divide, and what will be the major issues facing him?
Iraqi police forces on patrol in Hammam Al-Alil town, south of Mosul.
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British prime minister Anthony Eden justified attacking Egypt as necessary to restrain the country’s ‘dangerous’ leader. We still hear similar things before every Western intervention.
The research is strong that the atrocities of war cause mental health issues. A clinical psychologist walks us through the research and tells of her personal experience treating those with PTSD.
British soldiers on the outskirts of Basra in 2007.
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Does including torture or other human rights violations in video games trivialize the actions? Or might it force us to think more critically about them?
When Attorney-General George Brandis was asked on Q&A about a parliamentary vote on the decision to go to war, he said that was not part of the Westminster tradition. Is that right?
Blair testifies to the Chilcot Inquiry in 2010.
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Iraq’s supposedly sky-high child mortality rate was a key part of Blair’s case for war, and he was still making it years later – but it seems to have been based on a single dubious study.