The US has launched a review of its multi-billion dollar submarine deal with the UK and Australia, saying the security pact must fit its "America First" agenda.

The Pentagon is reviewing America’s role in a historic, multibillion-dollar pact among Washington, the United Kingdom and Australia to ward off China’s growing influence.

Australia says the plan to deliver nuclear submarines remains unchanged, despite opposition from a top Trump official.

Under Aukus, Australia was scheduled to make a $2bn (£1.47bn) payment in 2025 to the US to help boost its submarine shipyards and speed up lagging production rates of Virginia-class submarines to ...

Defence Minister Richard Marles downplayed a US review into AUKUS which threatens Australia’s $300 billion-plus plans to build and acquire nuclear submarines.

Australia’s top diplomat in the US, Kevin Rudd, is in Canberra amid concerns Australia’s longstanding military alliance with Washington is waning and a hoped-for meeting between the two leaders could ...

The Pentagon is reviewing the AUKUS security pact between Australia, the UK and the US to ensure it meets Donald Trump's "America First" agenda, a US defence official tells the ABC.

The Prime Minister says his government is engaging ‘with everyone in the United States’ in its bid to keep the AUKUS defence ...

The review will be headed up Elbridge Colby, who has previously been critical of Aukus, in a speech last year questioning why the US would give away "this crown jewel asset when we most need it".

The Aukus agreement - worth £176bn ($239bn; A$368bn) - was signed in 2021, when all three countries involved had different leaders. A US defence official told the BBC the pact was being reviewed "as ...

The US has launched a review of its multi-billion dollar submarine deal with the UK and Australia, saying the security pact must fit its "America First" agenda. Under the trilateral pact, believed ...