Paul McGeough
Paul McGeough is chief foreign correspondent for the Sydney Morning Herald.
The truth about Benghazi
Paul McGeough The shelling of the US embassy in Libya is dividing opinion, writes Chief Correspondent Paul McGeough in Washington.
Sex assault crisis exposes US military's enemy within
Paul McGeough Washington: The glib ease with which members of the US military are told ''thank you for your service'' is underscored in explosive developments this week in an endemic culture of sexual abuse that...
Despite all attempts, it's still hard to smoke out the bad guys
Paul McGeough, Washington The US authorities are missing the vital clues to lead them to terrorists on home soil.
A few bad men slip through the cracks
Paul McGeough Did Osama bin Laden sit up in his watery grave as the drama of the Boston bombing unfolded? Was that noise a rattling of bones, or a self-congratulatory chuckle as he watched Americans proclaim their...
Facing new terror
Paul McGeough They were named Suspect 1 and Suspect 2, and Americans who recognised them were advised to tread carefully.
Boston bombings: One suspect dead as policeman killed in shoot-out
Paul McGeough One of the suspects in Monday's Boston Marathon bombings was last night dead, with another on the loose in the suburbs after a firefight with police.
'There's a terrorist on the loose who wants to kill people'
Paul McGeough One of the Boston bomb suspects reportedly had explosives strapped to his chest when he was killed in a shootout with police and the other is on the run, as chilling pictures emerged of one of the...
Still no answers amid the bloodshed
Paul McGeough 'These runners just finished and they don't have legs now,' former US marine Roupen Bastajian said of the carnage he witnessed at the finishing line of the Boston Marathon.
'There's blood, blood everywhere, it's disgusting'
Paul McGeough ''These runners just finished and they don't have legs now,'' the former US Marine Roupen Bastajian said of the carnage he witnessed at the finishing line of the Boston marathon on Monday.
US shrugs off the war it would like to forget
Paul McGeough The mood of Americans seems to back President Barack Obama's decision to be abroad for the 10th anniversary of the US-led invasion of Iraq.
Dirt flies in battle of the warlords
Paul McGeough Things get dirty in Oruzgan. If the slate of allegations against Haji Obaidullah Barakzai is only half true then he qualifies either as a scumbag extraordinaire - or as a tribal elder going about his...
The trucks that keep the dollars flowing
Paul McGeough Oruzgan's millionaire police chief Matiullah Khan claims he was just a two-bit security operator until US Special Forces officers hit on the idea for his financial jackpot - protecting trucks against...
A town like Alice-ghan
Paul McGeough The dream town that Australia built in the middle of the desert is half empty and beset by the kind of wrangling that is today's Afghanistan.
Shame blurs the lines on sex abuse claims
Paul McGeough TARIN KOWT: As the six-vehicle police convoy climbs a riverbed, threading a rugged mountain pass that is the only route to Char China, our bulletproof Toyota 4WD reverberates with the hypnotic beat...
The untouchable: a new breed of warlord
Paul McGeough In the twilight that passes for reality in Afghanistan, the story of Hakim Shujoyi does not add up neatly; but there's enough in its different parts to suggest that a monster is stalking the eastern...
Thinking small lifts hope for Australian aid program in Afghanistan
Paul McGeough Australian NGOs willingly fan out across the globe, taking health, education and other services to the oppressed and downtrodden, but when the Australian military rolled into Oruzgan just a single...
For MP who can't go home, little has changed
Paul McGeough, Kabul She is as articulate as she is cautious with her life.
Many Afghans held by ADF are falsely accused
Paul McGeough, Tarin Kowt More than half the almost 1900 Afghans detained by Australian forces in Oruzgan may have been innocents falsely accused by local enemies , according to the province's chief of police, Matiullah Khan.
ADF cited for false jailings
Paul McGeough In Tarin Kowt MORE than half of thousands of Afghans detained by Australian forces in Oruzgan are innocents who have been dobbed in by enemies seeking an advantage in tribal, business or personal disputes,...
