Unrest, Conflict and War

After being cut off from the world for more than 12 weeks, Iranians have come back online. Their initial reactions are joy, shock and confusion.

It is the latest strike in a months-long series of attacks from the US on suspected drug trafficking boats in the Caribbean Sea and eastern Pacific Ocean.

Footage released on social platform X by the US Southern Command purports to show strikes on alleged drug-trafficking vessels in the Eastern Pacific Ocean on May 29 and 30.

Police arrest rioters in Paris during celebrations over Paris Saint-Germain’s back-to-back Champions League titles.

Eleven Australians detained by Israeli forces while attempting to deliver aid to Gaza have submitted evidence to the International Criminal Court alleging abuse, torture and other violations during their detention.

The US Defense Secretary addressed Asia's most important defence summit, but did not mention Taiwan as questions remain over a stalled weapons package.

The US president has been weighing a tentative agreement that would open the Strait of Hormuz and begin talks on Tehran's nuclear program.

For now, Australians seeking to understand any intelligence gaps, failures, missed warnings and government failings before the Bondi massacre are expected to accept a keyhole view.

New waves of missile strikes and vast advisories from the Israeli government to evacuate have left residents in Lebanon's south uncertain of where to turn.

After the Taliban banned women's sport in Afghanistan, most of the women's cricket team ended up relocating to Australia. Now, they're on tour in the Northern Territory — "a happy ending" after a traumatic journey.

Israel effectively controls an estimated 64 per cent of Gaza, now bombarded to ruins by Israel's two-year military assault that followed the 2023 Hamas attack on southern Israel.

US President Donald Trump says he is not yet satisfied by negotiations to end the war in Iran, and the US is not discussing easing sanctions, which is one of Tehran's key demands.

The father of one of the returned Islamic State group-linked women says his daughter is "happy to be home" but exhausted after more than a decade stranded in Syria.

An Israeli air strike in Gaza has killed new Hamas leader Mohammed Odeh, his wife and two of his children, the militant group has confirmed.

ABC experts answer questions abut the Iran war as the conflict enters its fourth month with no clear end in sight.

A war thousands of kilometres away from Australia's farms is quietly reshaping what crops are planted and what will be available at supermarkets in the future.

It is the first time Israel has made such a sweeping demand since US President Donald Trump announced in April a ceasefire had been imposed in Lebanon.

It comes as the White House rejects a draft deal being reported by Iranian state TV as a "fabrication". 

The Pentagon has denied claims that the department has been clashing with Elon Musk's SpaceX over costs to use its satellite internet network, which the military's kamikaze drones rely upon in the war against Iran.

Iran has denounced US strikes in the country's south as a sign of "bad faith and unreliability" as negotiations toward a possible deal to end the war continue.