Australia’s most decorated living soldier has been arrested over five counts of the war crime of murder while on deployment in Afghanistan, local media reported on Tuesday.

Australia's most decorated soldier Ben Roberts-Smith will remain in custody for two months after he was charged with war crime murders.

The charges follow a lengthy Federal Court defamation trial in which a judge found that on the balance of probabilities Ben Roberts-Smith was involved in the unlawful killings of four unarmed Afghan m...