The Defence Force says it was caught unaware by biblical citations stamped on its weapons, and they will be removed.

The Govt says its three-strike policy, which was agreed with Act today, will ensure repeat violent offenders get the harshest possible sentences.

Taliban fighters have developed a deadly new generation of their most lethal weapon, the improvised explosive device, or IED, which is almost undetectable because it has no metal or electronic parts, military experts said last week.

The defence correspondent of the Sunday Mirror newspaper has become the first British journalist to be killed while covering the war in Afghanistan.

Bombing by double agent highlights vulnerability of CIA.

The closure of the US embassy in Yemen highlights how vulnerable embassy facilities and its workers are in the age of the suicide bomber writes Patrick Cockburn.

Modelled on how Sunni nationalist groups in Iraq were induced to turn their backs on al Qaeda, the first examples of the new US policy of "reconciling" the Taleban are now being seen.

Barack Obama has announced he will send 30,000 more troops to Afghanistan despite growing pessimism about the war.

In the wilds of war-torn Afghanistan, a US soldier came across a local man accompanied by a smart-looking black dog.