An interactive map that plots where 18,000 New Zealand soldiers who died in World War I are buried has been created for a project marking the conflict's centenary.

The top US intelligence official stressed yesterday that a previously undisclosed programme for tapping into internet usage is authorised by Congress.

The memories have come flooding back for three Korean War veterans before the opening of a special photo exhibition that features 150 images taken by Kiwi soldiers.

Sometimes, in diplomacy, a translator is not enough. You need a code-breaker.

After 68 years, a group of war veterans have finally received the recognition they waited so long for.

A criminal inquiry has started into a firefight in which two New Zealand soldiers were killed in Afghanistan last year.

"Match" - It's just one word but for Kim Abraham that word on a DNA test would answer her life-long question: her sailor dad's identity.

Daniel Pearl had been held captive in Pakistan for more than a month when Mariane, his wife, learned he was dead.

Iraq is edging closer to all-out sectarian war between Sunni and Shia Muslims as a series of car bombings and shootings killed at least 90 people and left many others injured yesterday.

Bombs ripped through Sunni areas in Baghdad and surrounding areas Friday (local time), killing at least 76 people in the deadliest day in Iraq in more than eight months.

Sitting on a dirty straw mat on the parched ground of southern Afghanistan, Masooma sank deeper inside a giant shawl. Hidden from view, her words burst forth as she told what happened to her family in pre-dawn darkness on March 11 last year.

The Government says it will consider asylum for translators who worked with New Zealand's SAS soldiers in Afghanistan and have been left jobless and in danger.

The mob shouted "Kill the Syrians" as they marched on the Hawam family drinks stall in Reyhanli.

The man found living in the Vietnam jungle, who a new documentary claims is ‘long dead’ US army veteran Sergeant John Hartley Robertson, is likely to be a fraud.

George W. Bush wasn't lying about Iraq after all, and those of us who said that he was owe him an apology.

An award-winning documentary maker is raising money to make a film about New Zealand's greatest war correspondent.

On Anzac Day people in this part of the world commemorate the cost of war, loved ones lost, families ripped apart and lives forever changed, writes Ulrike McCullagh.

The Hobsonville War Memorial Park reclines on the corner of Hobsonville and Ockleston Roads in Hobsonville.

Harry "Middy" Middleton spoke very few words about the Great War.

Private Corey Twamley was fighting to give Afghan children the kind of human rights his daughter was born into.

Not many of us have a genuine hero for a big brother, says Rodney Hide. His friend Vince Ashworth has two.