The news that Islamic State (Isis) fighters have advanced to within 100km of Camp Taji where New Zealand's 143 military advisers are based wasn't the only bulletin from the war zone.

Killer robots being developed by the US military "will leave humans utterly defenceless", an academic has warned.

91: Southland surgeon-captain was tending wounded men when bayoneted by Germans.

90: Percival Beaumont Greenhough had always been a military man.

A 71-year-old working for a Tokyo antique book dealer was sifting through a stack of old documents acquired from a Japanese collector when he made a fascinating discovery.

America claimed a significant blow against Isis when Delta Force commandos launched a rare night-time strike inside eastern Syria, killing a commander.

Britain’s longest-serving poppy seller has been found dead amid concerns that she was being besieged with begging letters from dozens of charities.

88: Almost 100 years after he died in the uniform of another country, soldier Alexander Ormond stands firm in relief beside the pounding Pacific.

The Defence Force chief has downplayed a car bomb attack which killed three people near the NZ base on the first day of its deployment in Iraq.

A strong majority of New Zealanders support the Government's decision to deploy 143 troops to Iraq to train the Iraqi Army in its fight against Islamic State.

After nearly 50 years of service, the famous, versatile aircrafts - which have served in war zones and carried out search and rescues - will be phased out.

A memorial to New Zealand’s 16 Victoria Cross recipients during World War I has been unveiled at Parliament.

On 70th anniversary of the end of the Nazi regime, new colour footage shows what Germany looked like in the aftermath of World War II.

86: Rifleman Clifford Nightingale was more familiar with the pen than the sword when he sailed with hundreds of reinforcements to join troops on the Western Front.

Oscar-winning director's model is so detailed it shows colonel who defied his commanders and a fearless corporal who braved enemy gunfire to lay telephone wire.

A NZ refugee with 24 children who was killed in Iraq has been accused of disrespecting his adopted country by New Zealand First leader Winston Peters.

There is something about a centenary - and a well-written book - that can bring an event vividly back to life, writes John Roughan.

Thousands of people lined the streets of Wellington today for the Anzac Street Parade which weaved its way through the city around lunchtime.

A collection of Sir Peter Jackson's original and restored World War I vehicles rolled through Wellington ahead of an Anzac parade tomorrow.

If a New Zealand commander had told his troops at Gallipoli, ‘I am not ordering you to fight, I am ordering you to die’, it’s unlikely that he’d be remembered by towering statues or commemorative coins.

Up to 25 New Zealanders want to travel to the Middle East to fight against Isis, local Iraqi and Kurdish leaders say.

One of slain Iraqi New Zealander Kadhem Chilab Abbas's 24 children fears other family members will be next to die as they try to take revenge.

Two things immediately strike you when standing at Anzac Cove: the tiny beach, and just how daunting and steep the rugged terrain is that lies ahead.

The trial of the 93-year-old "bookkeeper of Auschwitz" began overnight in the German town of Luneburg.

Mohammed Emwazi, known as "Jihadi John", gave up an earlier plan to join al-Shabaab in Somalia.

The 9-year-old son of a Kiwi soldier killed in Afghanistan was accompanied by Victoria Cross recipient Willie Apiata as he laid a wreath at a new Australian war memorial in Wellington.