Army news headlines

An electric-powered version of the Australian Army's Bushmaster armoured vehicle has been unveiled.

On July 21, 1942, Australian soldiers began fighting a bloody World War II battle.

The Australian Army conducted the service in Zonnebeke, approximately 105 years after the soldier was believed to have been killed, in the 1917 Battle of Menin Road.

Ukraine's president alleged a Russian missile attack deliberately targeted civilians in locations without military value.

Ukraine's campaign to attack Russian supply lines and ammunition storage sites far behind the front lines is continuing.

Sri Lanka is experiencing an economic collapse that has pushed the government into a deep crisis and triggered the resignations of the president and prime minister.

North Korea has discussed assigning additional duties to its frontline army units at a key military meeting.

Street fighting continued to rage on Saturday in the eastern city, where Russian soldiers and Ukrainian troops are still locked in battle.

Military "megaprojects" risk a blowout in the defence budget, a new report warns.

Sievierodonetsk is key to Moscow's efforts to quickly complete the capture of the industrial Donbas region, the mayor says.

A "perfect storm" of dangerous factors can push some of our bravest Australians towards homelessness and suicide.

Approaching a village, a Ukrainian jumped out and started whipping the convoy and screaming. That moment stuck with him.

Sri Lanka's governing party has defeated a move in Parliament to urgently debate a motion that would censure President Gotabaya Rajapaksa for the nation's worst economic crisis.

The US Capitol has been briefly evacuated after police said they were tracking an aircraft “that poses a probable threat,” but the plane turned out to be a military aircraft with people parachuting out of it for a demonstration.

Foreign Minister Marise Payne said evidence of alleged war crimes was "horrific beyond description".

Prime Minister Scott Morrison has today condemned reports of civilian massacres by Russian forces in Ukraine.

Ukrainian troops moved cautiously to retake territory north of the country's capital on Saturday, using cables to pull the bodies of civilians off the streets

Another desperate attempt to rescue civilians from the shattered and encircled city of Mariupol also failed.

The mounting death toll of Russian generals in the Ukraine conflict reveals major deficiencies in Vladimir Putin's war machine, according to one expert.

Andrew Hastie has denied accusations he swapped information about Ben Roberts-Smith for positive media coverage that furthered his political career.

With Wednesday marking four full weeks of fighting, Russia is bogged down in a grinding military campaign, with no immediate end in sight.

Ukrainians are repurposing military equipment abandoned by the Russian army — or captured from it.

Vladimir Putin has again painted his enemies in Ukraine as "neo-Nazis", even though the country has a Jewish president who lost relatives in the Holocaust.

This is on top of the 3.2 million people who have already fled the country.

The NSW SES has addressed claims they twice "rejected" offers of help from the army in the lead-up to the state's flooding crisis.

Premier Dominic Perrottet has promised a new $25 million mental health support package for flood-affected regions while warning the current crisis is "not over".

It comes as part of efforts to ramp up economic pressure on Russia for invading Ukraine.

Insurance agents have been called in from all over the country to help with claims from Queensland's flood crisis, as families struggle to find refuge from their destroyed homes.

The Australian Defence Force has explained what has taken so long for troops to get on the ground in flood-affected areas.

More than 1300 Australian Defence Force personnel have arrived in Brisbane to assist with flood clean-ups, as residents work to clear mud and debris from their streets and homes.

Street protests, albeit small, resumed in the Russian capital of Moscow, the second-largest city of St Petersburg and other Russian cities for the third straight day.

Hundreds of thousands of people have fled Ukraine into Poland and other neighbouring countries in the wake of the Russian invasion

The harrowing footage showed the tank swerving to drive over the car then reversing back over it in Kyiv's Obolon district.

From the gap in spending, manpower, combat will and weaponry and vehicles between the two armies.

He was so desperate to get his cat back that he broke into a Melbourne animal shelter and held a young mother hostage with an imitation gun.

Russian troops will "very soon" be engaged in combat with Ukrainian forces, according to a front-line reporter.

It was Yvonne Sillett's lifelong dream to serve in the army but at the age of 28 she was forced out of dream career because of her sexuality.

A Tongan man who swam for 28 hours after getting swept out to sea during Saturday's devastating tsunami has spoken about his epic swim.

The Australian Defence Force has deployed a range of resources to provide aid to Tonga.

At least 164 people have been killed and more than 5000 detained during violent upheaval in Kazakhstan this week, as unrest swept the nation and the death toll ticked even higher.

For nearly 10 years, Joseph Moore lived a secret double life.

Three charred bodies have been found in a burned-out building in the Chinatown district of the Solomon Islands' capital, Honiara.

The US may send military advisors and new weaponry to Ukraine as Russia builds up forces near the border and US officials prepare allies for the possibility of another Russian invasion

Australia is today pausing and reflecting to commemorate our service men and women who died during wars, conflicts and peacekeeping operations.

A fierce protest over a probe into Beirut's August 2020 port blast prompted the worst violence Lebanon has witnessed in more than 10 years.

Talks between Indian and Chinese army commanders to disengage troops from key friction areas along their border have ended in a stalemate and failed to ease a 17-month standoff that has sometimes led to deadly clashes

While embedded in Afghanistan in 2009, 9News producer Wes Hardman wrote about the experience.

Taiwan's President oversaw the commissioning of a new domestically made navy warship on Thursday as part of the island's plan to boost indigenous defence capacity amid heightened tensions with China

Mutinous soldiers in the West African nation of Guinea detained President Alpha Conde then announced on state television that the government had been dissolved in an apparent coup d'etat.

The dramatic developments on Sunday bore all the hallmarks of a West African coup d'etat.