Hemi Anisi goes to work with a gun - and a wary outlook for pirates.

Unauthorised film from the aftermath of the "Battle of Baghak" has emerged showing Kiwi troops handing over a blindfolded enemy insurgent to a US helicopter gunship.

War in all its terror is becoming ever more visible. Helmet cameras and the like enable commanders to watch the fighting from the other side of the world and inevitably, the footage finds its way into the public eye.

Cameras 'swanning' around courtrooms in England will see judges 'heckled' the UK's top judge believes, citing NZ as a bad precedent.

A judge has called on Northlanders to take action to reduce high rates of murder and other violent offences in the region, before sentencing a man for manslaughter.

Two brothers seriously injured in separate army training incidents are a step closer to ending their 16-year battle for compensation.

The commanding officer of the New Zealand Army deployment on which Corporal Douglas Hughes committed suicide while in Afghanistan has defended the training of the unit before its went overseas in 2011.

The Defence Force has a $600 million shopping list for technology such as GPS tracking of troops in war zones to reduce friendly fire mishaps, as well as unmanned aircraft and drones.

The message is clear - the police loyalty is to their own rather than to acceptable standards of policing, writes Bryan Gould. One might have thought the Minister of Police would recognise the danger.

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.

A live grenade was carried on the body of a dead Kiwi soldier from Afghanistan to Christchurch without Defence Force officials knowing.

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.

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

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.

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

Two brothers who suffered horrific injuries in army training accidents could be nearing the end of their long battle for compensation. (WARNING: Graphic image)

When it comes to the Five Eyes intelligence sharing grouping, it's like a family with the United States and Britain as parents.

The Air Force kapa haka group and band spent several hours yesterday with a couple of schoolboy rugby teams in Washington DC.

Being military-free would be something to be truly proud of, writes Bob Jones. "If the Aussies and Americans don't like it, well, bad luck, they'll get over it."

A New Zealand Defence Force peacekeeper was abducted from an observation post in the Golan Heights and held for five hours today.

Six translators who helped elite NZ troops in Afghanistan and who fear for their lives are demanding to know why they haven't been granted asylum like other interpreters.

It takes a special class of sleep-deprived conspiracist to imagine John Key would have welcomed, let alone engineered, the Aaron Gilmore brouhaha, writes Toby Manhire.