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Refugees journey home to New Zealand
The 750 refugees who arrive in NZ each year now face a whole new journey navigating our foreign land.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Helen Clark's decision not to send troops to war in 2003 has been vindicated by the Chilcot report on Britain's Britain's role in the Iraqi invasion, says Labour's Andrew Little
As Britain debates the damning Chilcot report Iraq keeps counting the dead with some saying the country was more secure under Saddam Hussein.
Twenty-nine never-before-seen letters from George W. Bush's presidency are about to be published as part of an explosive report.
Prime Minister John Key has done so many u-turns this week he is in danger of coming to the attention of his boyracer-car-crushing minister Judith Collins.
US Secretary of Defense Ash Carter has thanked the New Zealand Government for agreeing to extend its deployment to Iraq