Politics

The Pentagon has identified the six US service members who died this past week when a refuelling aircraft crashed in Iraq amid the US-Israeli war against Iran and the wider conflict in the Middle East.

One of Australia’s few Muslim federal parliamentarians has accused Labor of failing to confront rising Islamophobia in the country.

Barnaby Joyce has made a bold prediction on whether the major parties may soon have no choice but to deal with One Nation.

US President Donald Trump says he hopes China, France, Japan, South Korea, the United Kingdom and others will send warships to help secure the Strait of Hormuz.

Australia has stockpiled more than a month's supply of fuel and is as ‘prepared as possible’ as the war in the Middle East continues to impact global supply.

The deployment of about 2,500 Marines to the Middle East represents a new phase in the weeks-old war in Iran, as Iranian forces increase their attacks on the Strait of Hormuz.

Australian families face a devastating double blow as the fallout from the Middle East smashes domestic households.

Japan is worrying about its fuel supplies while the Iran war rages so is calling on its "energy security lifeline" Australia to ramp up much-needed gas exports.

Twelve doctors, paramedics and nurses have been killed in an Israeli strike on a healthcare centre in southern Lebanon, the World Health Organisation says.

Israeli forces say they have carried out about 400 waves of air strikes in the first two weeks of the war with Iran, each involving numerous fighter jets.

Another three members of the Iranian women’s football team who accepted asylum in Australia have now changed their minds and will return to Iran.

President Donald Trump said that the US military had conducted a bombing raid targeting military facilities on Kharg Island, a small landmass in the northern Persian Gulf off the coast of Iran. 

Massive defence projects will no longer be subject to public scrutiny in a move described as the ‘final nail in the coffin of transparency and accountability’.

Energy Minister Chris Bowen has not ruled out relaxing Australia’s total ban on importing Russian oil and petrol following reports China may halt its exports to Australia.

North Korea has fired at least one projectile into its eastern sea amid tensions around allied drills between the US and South Korea.