Australia could potentially find itself embroiled in another conflict in the Middle East after Iran launched a revenge rocket attack on American air bases in Iraq .

Hundreds of Australian troops will stay in Iraq after Iranian rockets fired on US-led military bases in the country. Australia has several hundred troops deployed to Iraq along with a team of diplomatic staff.

President Donald Trump has revealed that the U.S. is currently developing 'many' super-fast hypersonic missiles and boasted that the American weapons were 'big, powerful, lethal and fast'.

Lasers will be able to hit targets further away and through clouds and dust storms due to the technology. Israel is expected to test the laser weapons later this year, and deploy them in future.

PETER OBORNE: The firing of ballistic missiles at US bases is the biggest and most dangerous military confrontation between America and Iran since the American hostage crisis in 1979.

Four Iraqi soldiers were wounded in the attack, two military sources told Reuters. The military sources said the mortar bombs fell on a runway inside the base.

No coalition troops were injured in the Soviet-made Katyusha rocket attack on Camp Taji north of Baghdad on Tuesday night.

At the time the attack was launched at 1.35am on January 8, the US Army was flying seven unmanned aerial vehicles over Iraq to monitor bases where US-led coalition forces are deployed.

Three rockets slammed into the US embassy in Iraq's capital on Sunday in the first direct hit reported after months of close calls, as thousands kept up anti-government sit-ins across the country.

Andrew Demma, an Iraq War veteran who served a one-day prison sentence for child porn charges, will be re-sentenced in Dayton, Ohio. Federal officials say the conviction was 'unreasonably low.'

Bertie Carvel, 42, stars alongside Waleed Zuaiter, 49, in Channel 4's gripping new thriller Baghdad Central. The pair told how having an Arab Muslim as the lead character is nothing less than historic.

Diane Douglas 'completely broke down' when she discovered a massive metal container had been dumped on the grave of her son Allan, who was shot dead in Iraq, at Dyce Cemetery in Aberdeen.

Rookie cop Henry Solis went on the run in Mexico after shooting dead Salome Rodriguez Jr. after getting into a fight outside a Los Angeles bar in 2015. He was convicted of second-degree murder.

President Donald Trump fired Lt. Colonel Alexander Vindman from the White House on Friday after the war hero testified against him in the House impeachment inquiry.

Gordon Sondland has become the second impeachment witness to be fired by President Trump, less than 48 hours after the Commander-in-chief was acquitted by the Senate on two charges.

'Fake News @CNN & MSDNC keep talking about "Lt. Col." Vindman as though I should think only how wonderful he was,' Trump wrote in a tweet on Saturday morning from the White House.

'The president (left) this morning made a series of obviously false statements concerning Lt Col Vindman (right),' Vindman's lawyer, Ambassador David Pressman, said.

Between 1987 and 1991 she served as an MP with the Radical Party and made headline-grabbing policy pledges, such as offering to have sex with Saddam Hussein in return for peace in Iraq.

Grace Campbell, 25, whose Yorkshire-born father Alastair served as the Downing Street press secretary, told Sunday Mirror Notebook she's spent her life competing for her dad's attention.

A soldier stationed in Iraq spotted two men breaking into his Illinois garage. Soldier Richard Wharton was 6,500 miles away and using an app on his phone spotted the burglars walking out with tools.

President Donald Trump slammed and snubbed Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Sunday with an announcement he won't attend the annual St. Patrick's Day lunch in the Capitol this Thursday.

Peter McAleese (pictured serving in the South African Defence Force) joined the British Army aged 17 and became a 'gun for hire' after nine years of service to recapture the 'buzz'.

The Ministry of Defence has named the British servicewoman killed in a missile attack on Camp Taji in Iraq as Lance Corporal Brodie Gillon, 26.

Britain has 'the right to defend itself', the defence secretary has warned, after a missile strike in Iraq killed British servicewoman Lance Corporal Brodie Gillon and two others on Wednesday.

I watched President Trump's COVID-19 press briefing yesterday in which he stated with unequivocal confidence: 'It's something we have tremendous control of.' Really, Mr President?

Veterans accused of wrongdoing overseas are set to get protection with the introduction of a new bill, but it will not apply to soldiers who served in Northern Ireland, nor Afghan and Iraq veterans.

A series of photographs taken in recent days from Libya to Singapore show deserted streets after governments across the world shut down borders to contain the deadly coronavirus.

Cleavon Gilman, who works at New York-Presbyterian Hospital in Washington Heights, tweeted his horror with a video of a packed Sheep Meadow in Central Park on Saturday.

It's been less than a month since the 22-year-old reality star originally lightened her short raven bob

Kendall Jenner bundled up on a breezy day in West Hollywood with an oversize plaid coat and black sweatpants. She stopped by Alfred Coffee for a quick caffeine fix.

Kim Kardashian shared a tweet sent to her by her sister Kourtney featuring a passage written by the late psychic Sylvia Browne that some have suggested pointed toward the coronavirus years ago.

With schools moving to online learning, libraries closed, sports called off and enrichment classes cancelled, not to mention the social distancing movement, it's time to get creative.

The 39-year-old captioned the photo of Psalm, 10 months, sucking his thumb: 'My baby boy is so handsome and sweet.'

The 24-year-old KUWTK star drove with her friend since 2016, Fai Khadra, as well as a brunette resembling her half-sister Kourtney Kardashian

The 40-year-old reality TV star - who has Mason, 10, Penelope, seven, and Reign, five, with ex-boyfriend Scott Disick - has revealed she felt like she was 'on a hamster wheel' earlier in her career.

The seven-part docuseries Tiger King: Murder, Mayhem and Madness reached No. 1 on Netflix's Top 10 list since dropping Friday

Kourtney wore a graphic beige sweatshirt and pink logo'd sweatpants. Her long hair was styled in a top knot and she sported sunglasses.

The 22-year-old reality star's two-year-old privileged princess appeared to be wearing all 24 of a $3 package of Trolls temporary tattoos

The Keeping Up With The Kardashians star has donated a whopping $1M to help doctors get the face masks, face shields and protective gear they need to help the sick suffering from COVID-19.

The 57-year-old former roadside zoo owner is in prison serving 22 years for a murder-for-hire plot as well as violating the Lacey Act and Endangered Species Act

When things got serious between Kim Kardashian and Kanye West, he arrived at her home with a stylist to sort through her 'ghetto' closet.

Kim Kardashian loves Tristan Thompson 'like a brother' even though he was serially unfaithful to her little sister Khloe Kardashian, she revealed on Twitter after the new premiere of her show.

Sharing a behind-the-camera shot from one of her confessionals on the show, Kourtney posted an impassioned message about her decision

Khloe Kardashian has revealed she watched the season 18 premiere of Keeping Up with the Kardashians with ex-boyfriend Tristan Thompson.

Khloé Kardashian claimed she has forgiven both Tristan Thompson and Jordyn Woods, though she disputed Jordyn's claims that the NBA star kissed her at a party without her consent.

Kim Kardashian posted a throwback photo of herself with light hair and contemplated going blonde after quarantine is over. She said the time at home has allowed her hair to heal.

The Clinton Johnson Band's Vince Johnson said he and his singer Danny Clinton 'recorded three albums worth of songs' before Clinton's death from heart-related issues last October

Kim Kardashian was feeling nostalgic on Tuesday, so she shared a sweet group photo with her BFF Allison Statter and her mother 'Aunt' Shelli Azoff.

Kendall Jenner took her purple 1960 Cadillac Eldorado convertible out for a spin with the top down with her BFF Fai Khadra. They drove down LA's iconic Mulholland Drive.

Kourtney Kardashian won't be watching the drama unfold on her reality TV show on Thursday, opting instead to spend time with her three children, according to a tweet sent by the 40-year-old.