Australia will take an extra 12,000 asylum seekers displaced due to the crisis in the Middle East, says the country's prime minister. "Australia will resettle an additional 12,000 refugees from the Syria/Iraq conflict," Tony Abbott told reporters in the Australian capital, Canberra, on Wednesday. The figure would be on top of the existing 13,...

Tehran, Sept 5, IRNA Australia's Prime Minister Tony Abbott said on Thursday that ISIL (Daesh) is worse than the Nazis were during World War II. 'The Nazis did terrible evil but they had sufficient sense of shame to try and hide it. These people boast about their evil. This is the extraordinary thing,' Abbott told conservative radio host Alan Jones ...

Sydney (AFP) - Seven young suspected jihadists have been stopped from leaving Australia amid fears they planned to fight for terrorist groups in the Middle East, Prime Minister Tony Abbott revealed Thursday. The government has been increasingly concerned about the flow of fighters to Iraq and Syria to join extremist organisations. Abbott said ...

SYDNEY (AP) -- Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott has laid flowers at a makeshift memorial in Sydney for the victims of a central city cafe siege which left three people dead. Abbott laid a bouquet of white flowers at the memorial in Martin Place while his wife Margie laid a bouquet of red flowers. Abbott also wrote a message and waved at the crowd ...

[caption id="attachment_120104" align="alignright" width="170"] The photo taken by the Australian Defence Force on September 24, 2014, shows a Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) F/A-18F Super Hornet (R).[/caption] The Royal Australian Air Force has conducted its first mission in Iraq against the ISIL cult but has not carried out any airstrikes. The ...

[caption id="attachment_117062" align="alignright" width="211"] Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott[/caption] Australias Prime Minister Tony Abbott says Australian troops in Iraq will not engage in combat operations in the crisis-hit country. If we have military advisers with the headquarters of Iraqi security forces and with Peshmerga forces, ...

(CNN)-- Australia's Prime Minister on Saturday reiterated his "high degree of confidence" that acoustic signals picked up by searchers in the Indian Ocean are from the missing Malaysian plane's black box. But Tony Abbott warned that locating the flight data recorders beneath nearly three miles of water would be a "massive, massive task." "It is ...