Canberra to accept 12,000 additional refugees from Syria, Iraq: PM
Australia will take an extra 12,000 asylum seekers displaced due to the crisis in the Middle East, says the country’s prime minister.…
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Australian prime minister: ISIL worse than Nazis
Tehran, Sept 5, IRNA – Australia’s Prime Minister Tony Abbott said on Thursday that ISIL (Daesh) is worse than the Nazis were…
Seven young ‘jihadists’ stopped from leaving Australia
Sydney (AFP) – Seven young suspected jihadists have been stopped from leaving Australia amid fears they planned to fight for terrorist groups…
Australia PM lays flowers at memorials for victims
SYDNEY (AP) — Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott has laid flowers at a makeshift memorial in Sydney for the victims of a…
Australia flies first anti-ISIL mission in Iraq
The Royal Australian Air Force has conducted its first mission in Iraq against the ISIL cult but has not carried out any…
Australia not to do combat operations in Iraq: Abbot
Australia’s Prime Minister Tony Abbott says Australian troops in Iraq will not engage in combat operations in the crisis-hit country. “If we…
Australian PM Tony Abbott remains confident signals are from MH370
(CNN) — Australia’s Prime Minister on Saturday reiterated his “high degree of confidence” that acoustic signals picked up by searchers in the Indian…