Our small country has a long record in world peacekeeping.

Be prepared for some tense scenes in Oscar-winning The Hurt Locker.

Fresh evidence has emerged that British military intelligence ran a secret operation in Iraq which authorised degrading and unlawful treatment of prisoners.

Nine figures of the New Zealand film industry have been nominated for the 2010 Oscars.

British ministers ignored the military's warning that more time was needed before the invasion of Iraq, an inquiry hears.

Medic says 20 years of injury and death in NZ no preparation for life on patrol.

Taliban fighters have developed a deadly new generation of their most lethal weapon, the improvised explosive device, or IED, which is almost undetectable because it has no metal or electronic parts, military experts said last week.

The defence correspondent of the Sunday Mirror newspaper has become the first British journalist to be killed while covering the war in Afghanistan.

Bombing by double agent highlights vulnerability of CIA.

Demand for a seat to watch Tony Blair give evidence to the Iraq inquiry has been so high that a public ballot is to be held to allocate the limited places.

The closure of the US embassy in Yemen highlights how vulnerable embassy facilities and its workers are in the age of the suicide bomber writes Patrick Cockburn.

A year after the gesture that instantly gained him adulation throughout the Arab world, the Iraqi reporter who threw his shoes at President George W. Bush has complained that life since then has not lived up to expectations.