NZDF personnel leave for Australia on way to Iraq
A large contingent of Defence Force personnel to be deployed in Iraq left Ohakea Air Force Base today for Australia, the Defence Force says.
A large contingent of Defence Force personnel to be deployed in Iraq left Ohakea Air Force Base today for Australia, the Defence Force says.
Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott arrived in New Zealand last night for Anzac centenary events and talks on the military mission to Iraq.
More New Zealanders were being monitored because of their links to Islamic State the head of the New Zealand Security Intelligence Service says.
Yazidi girls - some as young as 8 - were raped by jihadists then sold, says a report issued yesterday.
Defence Minister Gerry Brownlee has dismissed reports that New Zealand troops have already left for Iraq on their joint training mission with Australia.
An advance party of about 85 Australian and New Zealand troops left Australia yesterday in a joint training mission now called Task Force Taji.
A former British diplomat has accused Hillary Clinton of contributing to Iraq's disastrous meltdown during her four years as Barack Obama's foreign policy chief.
Prime Minister John Key was unable to name the head of the Islamist terrorist group Isis - but nor could the Australian Defence Minister.
Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi made a personal appeal to US President Barack Obama for more funds to help the country push back Isis forces.
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.
Spare a thought for our Prime Minister. The price of "club" membership is to take New Zealand into a war not of our making, training troops who were once our enemy.
He looks downwards and shakes his head in response to my question, "What do you hope for?"
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.
Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott confirmed yesterday that 300 more of the Australian Defence Force would be deployed to Iraq in a non-combat training role.
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.