Tauranga lawyer Belinda Pidwell will never forget a Bosnian man tell how he and his family were lined up and shot.

We are perilously close to stumbling into a war of potentially global proportions.

Hitherto unseen evidence given to the Chilcot Inquiry by British intelligence has revealed that former British Prime Minister Tony Blair was told that Iraq had, at most, only a trivial amount of weapons of mass destruction.

If North Korea matches its warlike rhetoric with actions we are all in trouble, writes Robert Ayson. Kim Jong-Un may not have inherited the kind of nuclear warheads from his father that are ready to be put on to long-range missiles.

A decade after Australia joined the invasion of Iraq, demands are still being made for an inquiry into the decision to go to war amid fears the nation could again be dragged into a future conflict in Asia or the Gulf.

Two senior Iraqi politicians told Western intelligence that Saddam Hussein had no weapons of mass destruction on the eve of the 2003 invasion.

When a handful of surviving veterans of the legendary 28th Maori Battalion rose yesterday, they knew they had one more special mission.

"I felt I had done my best for them, but I failed. I felt it was a tragedy I had tried to stop and didn't".

Christian communities across Pakistan have launched angry protests after a Muslim mob set fire to a Christian neighbourhood in Lahore.

In India recently, British Prime Minister David Cameron rightly refused to apologise for the 1919 Amritsar massacre.

Christian community leaders in Lahore say the violence unleashed on the Pakistani city's Joseph colony erupted after a drinking session involving two friends, one Muslim and the other Christian.

Kadom al-Jabouri became the face of the fall of Baghdad but the "sledgehammer man" furiously regrets the symbolism of what he was involved in 10 years ago.

Pakistan is ripping itself apart, one minority at a time, says Irfan Yusuf.

Russia has been accused by Western diplomats of reneging on a pledge to stop supplying arms to the Syrian regime.

Joseph Stalin's son surrendered to the Germans during the Nazis' 1941 invasion of the Soviet Union, new evidence found in Russian archives suggests.

New balloting rules will mean 2000 New Zealanders get the chance to go to Gallipoli in 2015 for the 100th anniversary of the battles.

When Chris Kyle returned home from Iraq after serving as a Navy Seal, he felt disconnected, unable to talk about his experiences.

Lupe Fiasco has been rushed off stage at a pre-inauguration concert for Barack Obama after performing an anti-war song telling the audience he did not vote for the President.

Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg are collaborating on a third World War II mini-series.

The most frustrating part of covering the Lebanese civil war (1975-90) was that after a while there was nothing left to say. Syria is starting to feel just the same.

New Zealand's overseas defence force personnel will be turning to heavy doses of Skype tomorrow for a link with home on Christmas Day.