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Kiwi troops leave for Iraq
Kiwi troops are leaving for Iraq today to begin a two-year deployment working alongside Australian forces.
Kiwi troops are leaving for Iraq today to begin a two-year deployment working alongside Australian forces.
A 9-year-old girl who was taken as a sex slave by Isis was raped by 10 militants and is now pregnant, it has been reported.
Yazidi women released by Isis this week have given distressing accounts of their ordeals.
Mass graves containing the bodies of 1700 Iraqi military cadets killed by Isis are being opened - TV clips showing skeletal remains still wearing combat boots.
Labour has attacked the degree of secrecy about the preparation of a New Zealand troop deployment to Iraq.
Labour has attacked the degree of secrecy about the preparation of a New Zealand troop deployment to Iraq.
Ralph Baydoun is a 23-year-old Lebanese videographer based in World Vision's Beirut office and last month we travelled together to some of the more challenging areas of the Middle East - the Kurdistan region of Iraq, and the Lebanon-Syrian border.
I first met Reverend Harold Good eight years ago in Belfast, Northern Ireland.
Nareen and her daughter almost died after jihadists trapped Yazidi refugees.
Canada's mysterious and small operation has become a lot bigger and more costly since it began, writes Dita De Boni. Which could be our fate, too.
The Independent investigates how Isis jihadis govern every aspect of life within the territories they control.
'The scenes terrified me': Meet the former jihadi who deserted Isis rather than take part in executions, beheadings and rape.
One day, he was a dental surgeon. The next, he was held at gunpoint and thrown in a cell, where he watched the other prisoners shot one by one. Ashour tells his story.
A teenage Melbourne terrorist who reportedly died in a suicide bombing in Iraq had previously been plotting an attack in Australia.
New images have emerged of three men accused of homosexuality and blasphemy being publicly beheaded at a traffic roundabout in northern Iraq.
One of the lesser-noted points in Prime Minister John Key's speech last year on the New Zealand response to the crisis caused by Isis was that "we will be looking at further assistance to meet....
The Nigerian militant group Boko Haram has announced it is joining Isis by apparently releasing an audio statement swearing allegiance.
Australians travelling to the northern Iraq city of Mosul without a legitimate reason face jail.
As many as one million people could flee Mosul in northern Iraq if the Iraqi Army, backed by US air strikes, seeks to recapture the city this year, aid agencies have said.
New Zealand troops are preparing for a two-year tour in Iraq to help the fight against Islamic State. This is what they are up against.
Despite the forthrightness of the announcement that we're off to Iraq, much remains unclear, writes Paul Little.
Auckland peace activist Harmeet Sooden is going back to Iraq, where he was held hostage for four months.
Bad news, peaceniks. If you oppose the deployment of NZ troops to Iraq, you are gutless, a coward, at least in the estimation of the Prime Minister, writes Toby Manhire.
There’s been widespread sceptism and outrage in response to the Government’s announcement that New Zealand troops will be sent to Iraq, writes Bryce Edwards.
In November Prime Minister Key referred to ISIL as a ‘game changer’ for New Zealand. I wasn’t convinced, especially as the government was focusing on the domestic aspect in seeking to justify increased surveillance powers.
The decision to commit NZ military contingent to Iraq is a case of misguided foreign policy.
A senior US security official will visit New Zealand next month as part of a tour of the Asia-Pacific.
The quality of New Zealand's training contribution to the Iraqi armed forces would be a welcome addition to the fight against Isis (Islamic State), Iraq's ambassador to New Zealand, Mouayed Saleh, said last night.