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Friday, April 17, 2026
Volume:
42
Issue:
5
Abstract:
On April 7, 2026, Australian authorities charged a former elite soldier, Ben Roberts-Smith, on Tuesday with five counts of war crimes—specifically murder—related to the deaths of Afghan nationals between 2009 and 2012. Roberts-Smith has already suffered a loss in civil court on the matter when he brought a defamation suit against nine newspapers that ran the story.