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16 trainers among 106 NZDF staff
The deployment of 106 Defence Force personnel to a military base in Iraq will include just 16 trainers, the New Zealand Defence Force chief confirmed yesterday.
The deployment of 106 Defence Force personnel to a military base in Iraq will include just 16 trainers, the New Zealand Defence Force chief confirmed yesterday.
An angry John Key has lashed out at the Opposition over its attacks over New Zealand's Iraq mission, saying “Get some guts and join the right side.”
Herald political writer John Armstrong says the PM's decision to bypass the media when announcing his decision shows he is failing.
John Key today announced that he was sending 143 NZ military personnel to Iraq to help train Iraqi forces fighting Islamic jihadists. Here is his full statement to Parliament:
New Zealand intelligence agencies could play a role in protecting trainers sent to Iraq but are unlikely to provide information to assist with drone strikes, Prime Minister John Key says.
The PM's insistence that he was referring to all of the members of the multi-national force as the "club" defies logic, writes John Armstrong.
New Zealand troops sent to Iraq to help in the fight against Isis will not be 'on the front line', Prime Minister John Key says.
John Key speaks on New Zealand's possible involvement in the fight against Isis.
Prime Minister John Key has all but confirmed that up to 100 New Zealand Defence Force staff will be sent to the Middle East to help Australia train Iraqi soldiers to fight Isis .
NZ troops are preparing to return to Iraq, a decade after Kiwi soldiers were last in the violence-wracked nation. On Monday the cabinet is expected to set the ground rules for the deployment.
Replacing ageing military equipment is often fearsomely expensive.
The film clip of Defence Minister Gerry Brownlee striding into the bowels of the $250 million Boeing C-17 Globemaster for a test drive this week was scary.
Prime Minister John Key says New Zealand is not considering an Iraq deployment to “wave its flag” or please its American allies, but to play an important role in forcing back the “reprehensible” Islamic State.
Iraq has issued a general invitation to the international community for support, the country's foreign minister says.
Buildings lie in waste, reduced to rubble. Others, their faces are shorn clean off. Bullet casings litter the streets, unexploded mortars burrow into pavements.
Vo Van Duong's bamboo and coconut leaf house looks much like others deep in Vietnam's Mekong Delta.
A suspicious item evacuated Tauranga Port this morning and sparked a call-out for police and the Defence Force.
A former financial controller for the NZDF will receive more than $70,000 in unpaid redundancy after winning an employment battle over an error in his contract.
In the best tradition of gunboat diplomacy, this country is flexing its muscles in the Southern Ocean.
New Zealanders living in Australia have chalked up a small but important victory for expats after being accepted for trials with the Australian Defence Force.
United States markets head into the last week of the year with a "Santa Claus rally" having lifted them to record highs, picking up momentum from outstanding GDP numbers in the world's biggest economy.