On a hot April day, a nine-man section from the Royal Australian Regiment moves into a squalid neighborhood on the outskirts of Dili on a routine patrol. A small clutch of gangly young men squat ...

Former servicemen told Four Corners what happened in East Timor in 1999 set in train cultural issues that would later lead to alleged war crimes by Australian SAS soldiers in Afghanistan.

The allegations have cast a shadow over Australia's role in leading the UN force in East Timor. But Lieutenant-General Peter Leahy said the investigation should not undermine the army's peacekeeping ...

First published in The Age on September 22, 1999. Gun attack on embassy - TIMOR RESCUE. Rising anti-Australian sentiment in Indonesia has erupted in a shooting attack on the Australian embassy in ...

Since 1999, far from helping East Timorese out of their poverty, the Australian government has robbed them of royalties from oil and gas deposits in the Timor Sea, worth over $10 billion.

During the widely celebrated mission in East Timor, Australian soldiers detained and abused 14 men and boys in a secret interrogation facility. Years later, the detainees are still haunted.

In his last interview with TIME, renegade East Timorese Military Police commander Alfredo Reinado boasted that so good were his ambush and surveillance skills that he could sneak into the bedrooms ...

Defence diplomacy gives island nations traction in the geopolitical rivalry between Beijing and Washington, but it is 'a ...

(Adds commander of international troops, border patrols) By Ahmad Pathoni DILI, Feb 12 (Reuters) - Australian troops began arriving in East Timor on Tuesday to help enforce a state of emergency ...

East Timor, war, coffee and Australia's debt of honour In wartime, food and drink can be a weapon, but also a token of hope - and the source of bonds that last for years, as two Australian cafes show.

CAMP ARIFJAN, Kuwait - The Australian general officer serving as the deputy commanding general of operations for U.S. Army Central took a tour of the vault, managed by the 175th Finance Management ...

Australia rejected on Tuesday East Timor's demand that it return seized documents, arguing they may threaten its national security in a case relating to their negotiations over oil and gas ...