Labour, Greens and NZ First want an inquiry into claims made in a new book.

Claim from NZDF there were no civilian casualties at odds with Minister's comment in 2014.

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.

Opposing sides in the Syrian war came face-to-face in United Nations peace talks for the first time in three years yesterday.

COMMENT: Yesterday our nation paused just before one o'clock to remember.

How many languages can you speak? Hamilton resident Christian Damba knows eight languages and is now adding Te Reo as his ninth. - Made with funding from NZ on Air

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".

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.

Astonishing link uncovered between Kiwi soldier who died in Gallipoli and bloodied Turkish family heirloom.

A 94-year-old veteran has taken to the skies in a World War Two plane, in what is likely to be his last ever flight.

A rare 1945 Douglas DC3, owned by Air Chathams, and touched down at Whanganui Airport. Made with funding from NZ On Air

A World War II bomb found in the River Thames has led to two of London's busiest bridges being closed.

The Fuhrer may have used a secret runway to escape his Berlin bunker and flee to South America in a Luftwaffe plane.

COMMENT: New Zealanders deserve to know why the issue of settlements has become so challenging, and why it came before the council in December

John Gregson, who has died aged 92, won the George Cross for saving the life of a shipmate during a torpedo attack in the Mediterranean in 1942.

New Zealand needs to show Israel there is a cost of continuing war, by refusing to accept imports or Israeli visitors from the occupied territories.

Every year dozens of protected New Zealand objects leave the country for good. Here's what some of them are.