Latest from Afghanistan

Girl, 10, captured with suicide vest

A 10-year-old Afghan girl has been apprehended while trying to carry out a suicide bombing attack against local police.

Army officer could face court martial over booby-trap

Bomber kills 6 in Afghanistan ahead US deal talks

A suicide car bomber tore through the Afghan capital, just hours after President Hamid Karzai announced US and Afghan negotiators had agreed on a draft deal allowing US troops to remain in the country beyond a 2014 deadline.

SAS link to war payout

The Defence Force paid US$1,000 to the families of two elite Afghan soldiers who were killed while the SAS was mentoring them.

Slain soldier honoured for bravery

The mother of an SAS soldier honoured for his bravery in Afghanistan says nothing will compensate for his death but he "wouldn't have had it any other way".

Laptop may have sparked shooting

An argument over a laptop is emerging as the incident which sparked the shooting of a New Zealand soldier in Afghanistan.

Kiwi soldier wounded

The exchange of gunfire that injured a New Zealand soldier in Afghanistan involved three rounds being fired towards the Kiwi from a lone Afghan soldier.

Close call for Chris Carter in Kabul

Former Labour MP Chris Carter says he was lucky to escape possible death after a suicide car bomb exploded metres away from his Afghanistan home.

One woman's Afghan mission

Safe and sedate, Dunedin is a stark contrast to Afghanistan, where driving to work is risk and walking alone even more dangerous.

Afghanistan: Bullish despite years of hardship

War and uncertainty have left their mark on Kabul, but there is hope, writes Peter Feeney.

Soldier's mother welcomes footage

The mother of a soldier killed in Afghanistan says footage released by the Defence Force of a firefight shows how well our soldiers are trained.

Film gives glimpse of deadly chaos

The Defence Force has issued footage from a chaotic 12-minute battle described as New Zealand's "biggest firefight since Vietnam" after a court of inquiry released its findings on two deadly incidents in Afghanistan that killed five Kiwis.

NZDF release footage of fatal attack

Details of a Defence Force inquiry into fatal attacks in Afghanistan have been released this afternoon, along with footage of one of the incidents.

NZDF to present findings of inquiry into fatal incidents today

The Defence Force will today present the findings of a Court of Inquiry into two incidents which resulted in the deaths of five New Zealand soldiers in Afghanistan last year.

Soldiers face probe

A criminal inquiry has started into a firefight in which two New Zealand soldiers were killed in Afghanistan last year.

Setting rules for a new game

When the US charged into Afghanistan in 2001 in hot pursuit of Al Qaeda, analysts sought deeper explanations for the Bush Administration's foray into the nation that humbled British and Russian arms.

Shock and gore

Sitting on a dirty straw mat on the parched ground of southern Afghanistan, Masooma sank deeper inside a giant shawl. Hidden from view, her words burst forth as she told what happened to her family in pre-dawn darkness on March 11 last year.

Afghanistan: Defence Force packs up 10 years of gear