John Key was playing to a vital international audience when he said that New Zealand has an opportunity to make sure the United Nations Security Council lifts its game.

Rob O'Neill under fire from fellow SEALs after he claimed he was the shooter who put three bullets into Osama bin Laden's head.

Aviation Security staff are on heightened alert following the raised terror threat level and on the lookout for a range of new risks.

Defence Minister Gerry Brownlee says any deployment of soldiers to train the Iraqi Army will not be the same as Afghanistan.

The Government has taken its time to decide New Zealand will not join Western allies in military action against the terrorist group that has taken over part of Iraq and Syria.

John Key has promised the SIS will get more powers and staff to respond rapidly to potential threats by NZ-based supporters of Islamic State.

The Cricket World Cup and the 100th anniversary of the Gallipoli landings are being treated as potential terror targets by New Zealand and Australian Governments.

A video has emerged purportedly showing Isis fighters haggling over the price of captured Yazidi women during a "slave market day".

John Key says he wants anti-terror law changes to be in place before the Cricket World Cup as Australia issues Gallipoli travel warning.

If there's one thing that irks Rebecca Kitteridge, it is being referred to as the new head of the SIS spy agency.

Iraqi forces have driven militants from Jurf Al-Sakhar, but all that’s left is a shell. The town is now emptied of its 80,000 residents, and building after building has been destroyed.

The shooter who rampaged through Canada’s parliament took a video of himself just before the attack and was inspired by ideological and political motives, police say.

It is arguably the greatest security challenge of the modern age - how to prevent "lone wolf" fanatics from committing devastating acts of terrorism.

International security experts have ordered NZ cricket bosses to beef up security ahead of next year's World Cup.

Muslim community groups have condemned threats made by a teenage jihadist who ran away from his family in Australia to join the Islamic State (Isis) terror group in Syria.

If there was anyone left who thought only troubled, fractured societies were subject to terrorism, the wave of apparently jihadist attacks across a country that is a byword for laid-back prosperity will surely have disabused them.

The New Zealand High Commission's building in Canada is in lock-down following a deadly shooting a couple of streets away in Ottawa this morning.

Terrorism is an affront to our freedom, human dignity and right to life.

Prime Minister John Key has laid out his Government' agenda for the next three years, with housing and the fight against terror groups at the top of the list.

Keith Locke writes: New Zealanders are right to be concerned about the rise of the Islamic State (Isis), but our best contribution would be to provide more humanitarian support.

PM John Key said New Zealand helping to train Iraqi troops was among the options the Government would consider when ruling on its contribution to the fight against Isis.

Thousands of NZers travelling to Australia could have "biometric data" such as facial recognition data, iris scans and fingerprints stored and shared.

When police pulled over Erol Incedal's car for what seemed like a routine traffic offence a year ago, it was a key moment in a case that would make British legal history.

An international security expert says the terrorist website fiasco shows New Zealand is not checking website details registered here closely enough.

Displaying your defeated enemy's heads on poles is a time-honoured New Zealand military practice.

A suspected Islamic State website shut down by Iceland authorities was registered to a private box in an upmarket Auckland suburb.