Military police pressured to make prisoners more 'pliable'

David Wroe, Deborah Snow Military police at Australia's detention centre in Afghanistan were pressured to make prisoners more "pliable" by gagging them, depriving them of sleep and denying them exercise.

Military police pressured to make prisoners more 'pliable'

David Wroe, Deborah Snow Military police in Afghanistan made prisoners more 'pliable' by gagging them and depriving them of sleep.

Fears Afghans abusing prisoners

Deborah Snow and David Wroe Australia has again suspended the transfer of suspected insurgents to some Afghan prison facilities in Tarin Kowt following allegations of abuse.

Troops 'humiliated' Afghan detainees

Deborah Snow, David Wroe Afghan detainees captured by the Australian Defence Force and held at a US military prison near Bagram complained to Australian government officials that they were forced to accept humiliatingly...

Afghan detainees 'humiliated in jail'

Deborah Snow and David Wroe Afghan detainees captured by Australian soldiers and held at a US military prison near Bagram complained to Australian government officials that they were forced to accept humiliatingly public...

The view from on high, Australia's eyes in the sky

David Wroe When air intelligence analyst Tyrone Buckland sits in a box-like portable office at Kandahar Airfield and studies the image being beamed from thousands of metres above a village in southern...

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Strategy to win hearts and minds cautiously received

Deborah Snow and David Wroe Defence white papers only come along every few years and Friday's - just the second since 2000 - was pitched carefully to a domestic as well as an international audience.

Soldiers remember the fallen in Afghanistan

David Wroe When the world watched two planes slam into the World Trade Centre in New York, Richard King was eight years old. He knew Afghanistan was a land that Alexander the Great passed through.

Soldiers of the iPod generation make their mark

David Wroe When the world watched two planes slam into the World Trade Centre in New York, Richard King was eight years old. He knew Afghanistan was a land that Alexander the Great passed through.

A final service as Tarin Kowt joins sacrifice

David Wroe A pair of Apache gunship helicopters thundered overhead as the light rose over the dawn service at Tarin Kowt base.

Bid to foil North Korea's nuclear ambitions

David Wroe Australia will urge China this week to clamp down on the flow of technology and equipment crossing its borders into North Korea that could be used by the rogue nation in its nuclear weapons program.

Australia urges tighter ban on North Korea

David Wroe Australia will urge China this week to clamp down on the flow of technology and equipment crossing its borders into North Korea that could be used by the rogue nation in its nuclear weapons program.

Victims of military abuse divided

David Wroe Opinions differ on whether Defence Minister Stephen Smith has failed victims of abuse.

Did Mossad use Zygier's passport?

David Wroe The opposition has called on the Gillard government to demand an immediate explanation from Israel as to whether its security agency, Mossad, misused Australian passports in its employment of Ben...

Maybe it's time to make a clean break

David Wroe ''What does Afghanistan show,'' Stephen Smith asked on Tuesday. ''Easiest thing in the world to get in, hardest thing in the world to get out.

Marching home: after decade of war, end is in sight

David Wroe After a decade of war in Afghanistan and 39 combat deaths, the end is firmly in sight for Australian troops with the planned closure of their main base by the end of the year.

Officials broke rules on Zygier as case was flicked to ASIO

David Wroe, Tom Allard Two of Australia's highest ranking foreign affairs officials knew of the jailing of Melbourne man Ben Zygier - dubbed ''Prisoner X'' - in Israel but left his consular care in the hands of spy agency...

Failure to intervene: why Canberra turned its back on Prisoner X

David Wroe and Ruth Pollard A government inquiry has reignited concern over the Prisoner X affair.

Army adapted training after scathing Diggers report

David Wroe Defence Minister backs Army commanders after Diggers's attitude is compared to 'Roman gladiators'.

No help from home as official account changes

David Wroe NINE days ago, the office of the Foreign Minister, Bob Carr, sent written questions to the minister's department seeking advice for a TV interview Carr would record the following evening on the...