Grannies poured tea as part of a peaceful protest at Auckland's Queens Wharf today.

97 year old's Maynie Thompson and Kit Nelson march against war and the arms race

Syrian government airstrikes pounded eastern Aleppo yesterday.

Royal Navy warships will be left without anti-ship missiles and be forced to rely on naval guns because of cost-cutting.

A World War Two paratrooper who survived being shot four times in the conflict died on Remembrance Sunday while the Last Post played at 11am.

Just a day after Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin vowed to fight terrorism together, Russia has unleashed a major offensive against the country.

New Zealand's offer to resettle 150 refugees from Australia remains on the table, the Government says, despite a new offer by the

A French memorial will be added to the War Memorial Park in Wellington after a winning design was chosen from 43 entries.

On November 11, 1918, at 11am Germany and the Allied forces signed an armistice to end four years of brutal battle, marking the end

Donald Trump has promised that as president he will honour the pledge stitched into his white and red baseball caps: Make America Great Again.

A former soldier who defrauded people out of thousands of pounds by pretending to be a decorated war veteran with cancer has been jailed for 16 months.

COMMENT: Over the past 150 years the New Zealand Wars have always been central to New Zealand's history and even its popular culture.

The US presidential election has become an object lesson in everything that ails a country long seen as a beacon of freedom and hope.

The Iraqi army backed by a US-led coalition is preparing an offensive to take back Mosul and ISIS is buckling down for a fight. According to American and Iraqi officials ISIS are setting booby traps; lowering explosives into holes dug throughout the city; built tunnels so that militants can quickly disappear from one location only to pop back up firing from another; and have rigged the city’s bridges with bombs.

The name of a Kiwi soldier executed for mutiny during World War I will finally be added to a war memorial dedicated to mutineers

A tiny Russian "exclave" in Europe is now a dangerous flashpoint, as tensions between Russia and the West intensify.

Russia has released the first image of its new nuclear missile, a weapon so powerful that it could wipe out nearly all of the UK or France.

A rare set of medals awarded to three New Zealand brothers who died in two consecutive wars are coming up for auction in Auckland on Saturday.

A woman whose family had to flee war-torn Kurdistan before she was born is making it her mission to help her people in her homeland.

COMMENT: It is time to sober up. The superpowers are drunk on rhetoric, mistrust and posturing. They are dragging us all towards the brink.

With four children to support, this couple have turned to the only way they can make money - killing.

Flaws in the water piping system mean it freezes during winter. To prevent pipes bursting, the water is turned off to most of the cabins.

Thousands of gay and bisexual men convicted of abolished sexual offences in the UK are to be posthumously pardoned.

Controversial President Rodrigo Duterte has already told Barack Obama to "go to hell". Now he has struck another blow against the US.

They survived Boko Haram, now millions are at risk of starvation. It has been described as one of the world's biggest humanitarian disasters.

Washington's support for Saudi Arabia's campaign against Houthi rebels has implicated the US in civilian deaths, according to human rights groups.

Phil Goff's first public event as Auckland Mayor was to lay a wreath at the Passchendaele 99th Commemoration at Auckland Museum today.

The garden will be completed in time for the centenary of Passchendaele, finally a place of peace where far too many young NZers died in the horror of war.

A piece of hallowed ground in Belgium which holds in its grasp the remains of hundreds of NZ soldiers is still claiming victims a century after WWI.

A garden made for contemplation on a World War One battlefield where New Zealand soldiers faced "hell on earth" will be built here and shipped to Europe.