The Latest Breaking News from Iraq

Secretary of State Antony Blinken heads to the Middle East this weekend for the fourth time since the Israel-Hamas war erupted in October as once-abated fears about a regional conflagration are surging with attacks and assassinations in the Red Sea, Lebanon, Iran and Iraq

Senior commander of Iran-aligned Popular Mobilisation Forces group is among those killed.

It's Day 87 of the Israel-Hamas war, and Hamas continued to fire rockets toward Israel on New Year's Day. Yemen's rebel army also pursued its disruption of Red Sea shipping, and Hezbollah carried out attacks toward northern Israel that displaced thousands of residents.

Nick McKim says national security committee documents used to justify the war may answer questions about momentous foreign policy decision

By far the most significant decision the Howard government made in 2003 was to support the invasion of Iraq. Journalists and historians have long maintained there was no submission to full cabinet weighing the pros and cons of the Australian intervention. Cabinet papers from 2003 released today by the National…

The department of prime minister and cabinet blamed ‘administrative oversights’ for the missing records

Cabinet papers from 2003 show there was no formal submission before decision was taken to join US-led ‘coalition of the willing’

Previously secret cabinet documents have revealed discussions inside the government before Australia committed to the Iraq War.

High-level discussions about Australia's decision to enter the Iraq War and a deadly virus that swept the world have been revealed in cabinet papers from 2003.