War news headlines

An obsessive fan of David Letterman, broke into his house and took his Porsche, but the comedian laughed it all off.

A statement claims Russian forces would strike the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, the biggest in Europe, and then report a radioactive leak in order to trigger an international probe.

Almost 11 months after his lengthy trial, Victoria Cross recipient Ben Roberts-Smith will soon learn whether his defamation case over war crimes reports has been successful.

The sanctions come as Prime Minister Anthony Albanese arrived in Japan for the G7 summit in Hiroshima.

Fierce fighting has made the Ukrainian city of Bakhmut unrecognisable, new satellite imagery shows.

Oliver Jordan Schulz is living at an undisclosed location in rural NSW, charged with unlawfully killing a civilian while deployed in Afghanistan in 2012.

'Black day' for Russia's airforce could indicate a surprise change in Ukraine battle tactics

The US ambassador to South Africa accused the country on Thursday of providing weapons and ammunition to Russia for its war in Ukraine via a cargo ship linked to a sanctioned company that docked secretly at a naval base near the city of Cape Town in December.

In a feisty video message, head of Wagner private military company complains to Moscow there is 'nothing left to grind the meat with'

The owner of Russia's Wagner military contractor has accused Moscow's military command of starving his forces of ammunition and causing them heavy losses.

Turkish forces have killed the leader of terror group ISIS, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has claimed.

Russia fired more than 20 cruise missiles and two drones at Ukraine early Friday.

Assistant foreign affairs minister Tim Watts is urging Australian citizens to leave war-torn Sudan now, as "plenty of seats" have been secured on flights out of the country.

Eltayeb Eltayeb touched down in Melbourne to hugs and tears from loved ones after help from Canada.

More than 100 citizens are stranded in the African nation, and relatives have been urging the government to do more as there is no Australian embassy in the country.

An update to Google Maps has provided a sobering look at the damage wrought by the Russian invasion of Ukraine on one of its most impacted cities.

It's a long-awaited move after Beijing said it wanted to act as peace mediator in Russia's war against Ukraine.

The warning came as Western and Asian nations raced to mount rapid evacuation efforts.

Tens of thousands of Australians have packed central squares in some of the country's biggest cities this morning.

Thousands of people across NSW marked Anzac Day in different ways but nothing personified the spirit of the day like two elderly diggers and the communities who rallied around them.

Sudan's warring generals have pledged to observe a new three-day truce brokered by the United States and Saudi Arabia in an attempt to pull Africa's third-largest nation back from the abyss.

Thousands of Australians earlier gathered around the country and overseas to mark Anzac Day in dawn services and marches.

If you're getting up early for Anzac Day, Weatherzone is predicting warmer than average temperatures.

Images featuring Australian and New Zealand soldiers in the Middle East have been colourised by family history platform.

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Already the US has shipped more than 1.5 million rounds to Ukraine, but Kyiv is still seeking more.

The federal government will dramatically reduce their planned purchase of tanks and howitzers to free up money for other defence priorities, Nine Newspapers reports.

The wreckage from the maritime disaster that killed more Australians than any other has been found, more than 80 years on.

Russia's military acknowledged that a bomb accidentally dropped by one of its warplanes caused a powerful blast in a Russian city.

There has been a mass flight of multinational companies from Russia in protest at its invasion of Ukraine. Here are some of them.

A Russian judge has ruled American journalist Evan Gershkovich must remain behind bars on espionage charges the US has rejected.

Separatist gunmen attacked Indonesian army troops who were deployed to rescue a New Zealand pilot taken hostage by the rebels in Indonesia's restive Papua province, leaving at least six dead and about 30 missing, officials say.

The Ukrainian president has vowed those behind the purported atrocities will be held accountable.

Ukraine is calling on Australia to send a whole new range of armoured vehicles to help fight off the Russian invasion.

Russian forces used ground- and air-fired missiles, rocket launchers and weaponised drones to bombard the provinces of Ukraine it has illegally annexed but doesn't fully control

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy won new pledges of deeper military and economic cooperation on a state visit to Poland as the neighbours sought to forge a tighter relationship in defiance of Russia's full-scale war.

The activist's husband is convinced she was "set up and used", saying she "is not the kind of person who could kill anyone".

Finland will become a full member of the alliance on Tuesday in what the NATO boss describes as a "historic week".

A well-known Russian military blogger was killed in an explosion at a cafe in St Petersburg on Sunday, officials said, in what appeared to be an audacious attack on a high-profile pro-Kremlin figure.

South Korean and US marines participate in a joint amphibious exercise in Pohang, South Korea, on March 29

It's the first time a US correspondent has been detained on spying accusations since the Cold War.

A key European leader has highlighted China's trade war with Australia in a major speech calling for a rethink of the continent's relationship with the superpower.

A Russian court has convicted a single father over social media posts critical of the war in Ukraine and sentenced him to two years in prison.

"Attention. Air raid alert," the voice says with a Jedi knight's gravitas. "Proceed to the nearest shelter."

A former SAS soldier charged with a war crime while serving in Afghanistan has sought bail claiming his safety could be at risk from Islamic terrorists while behind bars.

A long-range Russian bombardment killed at least 10 civilians and wounded 20 others in several parts of Ukraine on Friday.

Two children were among 25 people rushed to hospital, including three fighting for life.

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida made a surprise visit Tuesday to Kyiv, stealing some of the attention from Asian rival President Xi Jinping of China, who met in Moscow with Russian President Vladimir Putin to promote Beijing's peace proposal for Ukraine that Western nations have already criticised.

A woman followed a Ukrainian drone with a paper message to safety after Russians shot her husband.

Putin toured homes and spoke to locals in a show of defiance days after an international warrant was issued for his arrest on war crimes charges.