Prime Minister John Howard insisted oil had nothing to do with Australia's involvement in the Iraq war, contradicting his defense minister who said Thursday that protecting Iraq's oil supplies is ...

SYDNEY — Australian Prime Minister John Howard is secretly planning to begin withdrawing Australian troops from Iraq by February 2008, Australian media reported today. The Sunday Telegraph ...

Harry Kewell scored a dramatic winner with three minutes of extra time remaining Saturday to send Australia into the semifinals of the Asian Cup with a 1-0 victory that ended Iraq's defense of its ...

On January 5, Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott paid a surprise visit to Baghdad, making him the first Australian leader to visit Iraq since Julia Gillard in 2009. Australia is part of the U.S ...

CANBERRA, Australia – Australia's government has confirmed that an Australian has been detained in Iraq after a media report that an Islamic State group commander suspected of masterminding a ...

An Australian man has been conditionally released from prison in Iraq, after four years of what the UN has called arbitrary detention. Robert Pether, a mechanical engineer, was jailed in 2021 on ...

If Australia has learned the lessons of its disastrous debut at the Asian Cup, beating defending champion Iraq in Saturday's quarterfinal will go a long way to proving it. Four years ago, the ...

CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — An Australian jet fighter has made the country’s first airstrike against an Islamic State target in Iraq since the Australian government committed its air force to ...

Prime Minister John Howard on Sunday called general elections for Nov. 24 that will decide who will shepherd Australia's economic boom and whether the country will start pulling troops out of Iraq.

Australia (search) will send 450 more troops to southern Iraq to help protect Japanese engineers and bolster the country's fledgling democracy, Prime Minister John Howard (search) announced Tuesday.

CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Australia's government confirmed that an Australian had been detained in Iraq after a media report on Wednesday that an Islamic State group commander suspected of ...