The Prince of Wales has warned the world is in danger of "forgetting the lessons of the past" in a speech about the Holocaust.

US Embassy confirms NZ dual citizens excluded from travel ban.

It was a chilling prediction issued as part of a propaganda video intended to fuel hatred between Muslims and the West.

A young Kiwi couple's dream to see America has been dashed - at least temporarily - by Donald Trump's ban on visitors from seven majority-Muslim nations.

Prime Minister Bill English says it remains unclear whether a US travel ban applies to New Zealanders who also hold a passport from Muslim-majority countries.

Prime Minister Bill English has a duty to speak out against US President Donald Trump's ban on Muslim travellers, the Green Party says.

Travellers with valid visas and green cards have reportedly been prevented from boarding flights and turned away at US border control.

Police hope military-grade software will help solve the seemingly "impossible" disappearance of a swinging soldier under heavy surveillance.

Politics sure makes for strange bedfellows. Donald Trump has slammed Chelsea Manning as an "ungrateful traitor" for criticising Barack Obama.

For better or worse however, many countries and cultures rely more on traditional forms of social control.

Two bombs have exploded in a market in central Baghdad killing dozens and wounding many more

A truce aimed at ending the bloody five-year war in Syria has been announced. But what does it mean?

Seven policemen, two Jordanian civilians and one Canadian tourist were killed on Sunday.

A 15-year-old boy who tried to enter a football stadium wearing a suicide belt has spoken of the training he was given by Isis and his disappointment at failing.

As they battle to hold on to the northern Iraqi city of Mosul, Isis militants have added a new weapon to their arsenal: tanks made of wood.

Iraqi superstar Kadim Al Sahir will be bringing strains of Arabic music to Auckland, performing a one-night-only concert here next weekend.

The US presidential election has become an object lesson in everything that ails a country long seen as a beacon of freedom and hope.

Thousands of residents poured out of eastern neighbourhoods of Mosul yesterday, the first significant wave of people to escape the city held by Isis.

Thousands of US servicemen have been told to pay back enlistment bonuses, a decade after signing up for wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

A fire set by Isis (Islamic State) militants at a sulphur mine near the city of Mosul in recent days sent plumes of noxious gases over the battlefield.

Gerry Brownlee says the Iraqis are taking the lead and that is how is should stay.

Defence Minister Gerry Brownlee says it is not true that SAS are calling in airstrikes, or involved in any other combat operations in Iraq.

This morning on NZ Herald Focus - Gable Tostee trial js clearly struggling to reach a verdict with deliberations set to enter a fourth day.

Kurdish fighters meet fierce resistance from jihadists in battle for Mosul.

Iraq has launched its biggest fight against Isis. PM Haider al-Abadi pledged to raise the Iraqi flag over Mosul once more.

Thick black plumes of smoke carry for kilometres over the northern Iraqi landscape, blotting out the afternoon sun and making it feel like night.

An Iraqi woman says she chops and cooks the heads of Islamic State fighters in retaliation for the deaths of her family. Wahida Mohamed

Iraq would welcome more New Zealand troops to train local forces, its Prime Minister tells John Key.

An Islamic State insider has revealed the never-before-told story of the shadowy meeting that spawned the bloodthirsty terror group.