A former child bride has had her ears hacked off by her husband after he accused her of speaking to other men.

Police hope military-grade software will help solve the seemingly "impossible" disappearance of a swinging soldier under heavy surveillance.

Politics sure makes for strange bedfellows. Donald Trump has slammed Chelsea Manning as an "ungrateful traitor" for criticising Barack Obama.

Despite its distance from world trouble spots, New Zealand has a valuable role to play, says Bill English.

Abdurrashid Dostum has long been infamous for his cruelty but now his latest victim has accused him of imprisoning him, beating him and ordering him raped.

New Zealand's offer to resettle 150 refugees from Australia remains on the table, the Government says, despite a new offer by the

She was immortalised on the cover of National Geographic magazine as a green-eyed 12-year-old girl. Her life has taken yet another a tragic turn.

Thousands of US servicemen have been told to pay back enlistment bonuses, a decade after signing up for wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Gunmen opened fire on Shiite worshipers at a shrine in the Afghan capital, killing at least 17 people and wounding more than 40 others

Afghanistan has shot back at New Zealand after Foreign Affairs Minister made stinging remarks about its government at the United Nations Security Council.

Gunmen stormed the offices of an international charity and suicide bombers set off twin blasts in a shopping area near the Defense Ministry in a chaotic 24 hours.

When police stopped a van travelling across central Afghanistan to the city of Herat, they were really surprised: it was full of Western tourists.

Islamic State has suffered a blow after the leader of the group's Afghanistan and Pakistan branches was killed in a US drone strike, the Pentagon says.

The American University of Afghanistan reopens its campus after the kidnapping of two foreign professors.

The Afghanistan province where two Kiwi soldiers were killed four years ago today, is now secure, peaceful, and purged of insurgents.

Twin explosions in Kabul kill at least 80 people and wound more than 230 in a suicide attack claimed by Islamic State.

A deployment of New Zealand military trainers will stay in Afghanistan until June 2018 and their number will be increased from eight to 10.

After plunging off one of the world's most dangerous roads, our car slammed into a river engorged by melting snow and days of spring rains, writes Tim Craig.

A mother and an Auckland community will gather today to salute their fallen soldier.

Fallen Kiwi soldier, Luke Tamatea, was remembered in a touching moment last night, that left his 8-year-old daughter shedding "happy tears".

Afghanistan's cult hero Hamid Hassan, dubbed the Rambo of world cricket, is out to take First Blood against the Black Caps.

Wondering what to make of Afghanistan, the fledgling cricket nation who have won hearts, and a game, at the World Cup?

At least 124 people have died in north-eastern Afghanistan, after heavy winter snow caused an avalanche which buried and killed residents across four provinces.

Afghanistan came from nowhere to qualify for the World Cup. In their case that might be more than a pat phrase.

The war is officially over, victory secured. And Afghanistan, once again, has been rebuilt. But for many, life in the restive provinces is much as it ever was.

There is a scene in Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking-Glass in which Alice meets the White Knight who is wearing full armour and riding a horse which he keeps falling off.

In the film Zero Dark Thirty, she was the persistent, conscientious CIA officer who finally tracked Osama bin Laden to his lair.