Australia to send more troops to Solomons
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The Australian government announced on Wednesday it will send more troops to the Solomon Islands after an Australian officer of a regional intervention force was killed by
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Europe should deploy more troops to the dangerous southern regions of Afghanistan, Australia's foreign minister said Friday as the country mourned its second soldier killed there in three weeks.
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MELBOURNE: Josip Skoko scored twice to help Australia crush Solomon Islands 5-1 in their Oceania Confederations Cup first-leg qualifier in Honiara today.
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Australia is considering sending more troops to Afghanistan to counter resurgent Taliban and Al-Qaeda fighters, Defence Minister Brendan Nelson said Thursday.
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A CRACK squad of heavily armed combat troops will fly into the Solomon Islands today to reinforce the Australian police officers after a peacekeeper was killed by a sniper while on patrol yesterday.
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Australia will deploy an extra 100 troops to the troubled Solomon Islands after one of its peacekeepers was shot dead, the first casualty of its new, tougher security policy in the South Pacific.
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Australia is to send a patrol ship and aircraft to monitor the actions of Japan's whaling fleet off Antarctica.
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More troops will be sent to southern Afghanistan, Defence Secretary Des Browne announces.
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Australia's foreign minister says a UN peacekeeping force in East Timor will need more soldiers to back it up.
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Australia said on Saturday it would  contribute up to 130 police to a new U.N. mission in East  Timor, in addition to troops sent to restore order after a wave  of violence in the fledgling nation three months ago.
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Australia on Thursday warned China's rapid military expansion risked causing greater instability in the region as Prime Minister John Howard launched a new doctrine calling for military operations far from home.
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Australia will send 50 logistical experts to Iraq to train the newly established Iraqi defense force. Australian Defense Minister Robert Hill said yesterday that those experts would be in the regular rotation of Australia&#39;s active force in Iraq.
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US commanders intend to use the increase of US troops in Iraq in more offensive operations.
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The African Union plans to send more  troops into Sudan to reinforce its extended peacekeeping  mission in war-ravaged Darfur, an AU spokesman said on Sunday.
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CANBERRA: Australia has no plans to significantly increase the number of its troops in Iraq and does not expect to be asked to do so by close ally, the United States, newly re-elected Prime Minister John Howard said on Monday.
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Australia and the Philippines agreed to expand counter-terrorism cooperation Thursday, with elite Australian troops to train their Philippine counterparts in the restive south.
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The Solomon Islands government has made overtures to Canberra for Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare to meet Australian leader John Howard in a bid to resolve months of diplomatic tension.