For three years the NZ Defence Force resisted releasing the report.

NZSAS soldier says civilians were killed after faulty US intelligence.

The Iraqis' progress has been remarkable, Brigadier Hugh McAslan tells.

Iraq general in charge of the war against Isis calls them 'a disease'.

EDITORIAL: The story of War on Terror is riddled with controversy and failure.

One of the most damning claims in Nicky Hager's new book has been confirmed.

COMMENT: Whether Nicky Hager's new book scores the required hits is yet to be determined.

Credible sources are emerging to confirm civilians were killed during raid in Afghanistan.

Wayne Mapp and former governor of Bamyan province both confirm civilian deaths.

In 1969, a 20-year-old Corporal Benfell led eight men into combat in Vietnam.

Previously classified footage of nuclear explosions tested during the Cold War have been rescued from high-security vaults.

If you thought the defeat of Isis in Iraq would be a major win, think again. What lies ahead is a total mess.

Aid deliveries have all but stopped for hundreds of thousands of Syrians.

Twelve people from Mosul, including a 2-month-old baby, have been treated for suspected exposure to a blistering chemical agent.

The true horror of Islamic State's mass killings may never fully be known.

US President Donald Trump has pledged to increase US defense spending.

The remains of an unknown NZ soldier have been found a century after he died.

For complicated reasons to do with war and politics, the only way in and out of the enclave controlled by Syria's Kurds is on a rusty

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Joyce Luma, head of the United Nation's World Food Programme in South Sudan, called the famine "man-made".

The wife of the pilot and war hero killed when his helicopter crashed as he fought the Port Hills fires is "amazed" by the support for her family.

A genetically engineered virus is easier to make and could kill more people than nuclear weapons, says Bill Gates.

Wreaths laid on beach where Japanese soldiers ordered nurses to walk into the sea and then shot.

A simple Christmas Day text exchange has snowballed into a nightmare for Donald Trump, and it is nowhere near ending.

Russian media denied that chemical attacks had taken place, depicting rescue workers as jihadist militants and doctors as propagandist purveyors of "fake news".

A Hungarian Jew who survived Auschwitz and the Scottish soldier who helped save her will mark their 71st Valentine's Day together tomorrow.

Up to 72,000 residents living within a 2km radius of the bomb site were asked to leave their homes in one of the country's biggest peacetime evacuations.

COMMENT: Tough rhetoric on terrorists is nothing new in a US leader but straight-talking style is.

COMMENT: Could an American president start a nuclear war without going through the checks and balance of the American Congress? The short answer is yes.

The Prince of Wales has warned the world is in danger of "forgetting the lessons of the past" in a speech about the Holocaust.