Australian complicity in civilian deaths in Iraq and Syria: A matter of time
An RAAF FA-18 refuelling over Iraq in March 2017. Image courtesy of US Air Force via Wikimedia Commons As Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has made it…
An RAAF FA-18 refuelling over Iraq in March 2017. Image courtesy of US Air Force via Wikimedia Commons As Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has made it…
The alacrity with which the Prime Minister came out in support of the Trump Administration’s launch of 59 Tomahawk missiles against an air force base in…
Our armed forces have been deployed abroad opportunistically, even cynically, for decades. This must be avoided in future if they are to serve Australia’s true defence…
FOI Coordinator, GPO Box 5218, Sydney NSW 2001 Dear Coordinator, On behalf of Australians for War Powers Reform (AWPR) I hereby submit a request for documents and…
Dear Mr Turnbull, RAAF Operations in Syria and related matters. I refer to the recent operation around Deir al-Zor military airport in Eastern Syria, in which…
The war in Syria is extraordinarily complex. It really began in 2011 with the failures of the so-called Arab Spring. Now the core conflict is between forces…
On Saturday 18 September 2016 four ‘coalition’ aircraft carried out strikes on Syrian government forces encircled by ISIS fighters near Deir-ez-Zor airport. The strikes killed more…