Australia's Most Decorated Soldier Arrested for War Crimes

Ben Roberts-Smith, a Victoria Cross recipient and Australia's most decorated living soldier, was arrested at Sydney Airport on Tuesday morning over alleged war crimes committed in Afghanistan. The arrest follows a years-long investigation by the Australian Federal Police and the Office of the Special Investigator, and comes after Roberts-Smith lost a high-profile 2023 defamation suit against three newspapers that had published the original allegations. He is 47 years old.

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