A terrifyingly realistic report on Georgian TV - simulating a massive invasion by Russia - caused widespread panic in the country.

An emotional hospital-bed email has revealed how the heroics of a Kiwi soldier who saved the lives of two comrades under heavy Taleban gunfire were inspired by his fallen commander.

Jos has become an explosive fault line between the country's Muslim-dominated north and predominantly Christian south.

Defence Force troops are less likely to be injured on missions in war-torn Afghanistan and Iraq than they are at home base.

How the Nazis hoodwinked British scoutmaster Lord Baden-Powell into aligning the boy scouts with the Hitler Youth.

NZ's elite SAS troops have been involved in another firefight in Afghanistan, and once again press photographers have captured them in action.

France deliberately exposed 300 of its conscripts to an atomic bomb test in the Sahara in 1961.

The Taleban's top military commander has been captured in Pakistan.

Four decades later, rumours say Robert De Niro may reprise his famous role in the film Taxi Driver.

A first-person account of the harrowing experience of combat in Afghanistan's Helmand province.

American, Afghan and British troops have seized the largest Afghan town controlled by the Taleban.