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.

The 750 refugees who arrive in NZ each year now face a whole new journey navigating our foreign land.

Gunman Esteban Santiago - an Iraq war veteran - was taken into custody after he opened fire in the baggage claim.

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

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.

New Zealand troops have approval to work at three bases but could be sent to other bases says Defence Minister Gerry Brownlee.

More than 300 child soldiers, dubbed the "cubs of the caliphate", have reportedly been killed after being sent into battle.

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

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.

The son of slain al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden has vowed revenge on the United States for assassinating his father.

Relatives of Marie Colvin, a Sunday Times journalist, have filed a lawsuit claiming that Syrian government officials killed her.

Why Rania believed there should've been no excuses for the Sky Tower to be lit in the colours of the Iraqi flag to support the Baghdad bombing victims.