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.

AKorean business leader is planning to turn May 8, observed by Koreans as "Parents' Day", into a day to honour Korean War veterans in New Zealand.

A young Isis doctor identified as Tareq Kamleh has been revealed to be an Australian doctor who trained in Adelaide.

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.

Soldiers, veterans, politicians and a small group of protesters have gathered for the dedication of the Australia Memorial at Pukeahu National War Memorial Park in Wellington.

The 93-year-old 'bookkeeper of Auschwitz' will go on trial tomorrow charged with complicity in the murder of 300,000 Auschwitz prisoners.

The Pentagon announced that remains of nearly 400 US servicemen killed during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbour are to be exhumed for identification.

An advance party of about 85 Australian and New Zealand troops left Australia yesterday in a joint training mission now called Task Force Taji.

The Anzacs fought for seven months on the beaches and in the trenches of Gallipoli's Sari Bair range.

The last surviving Dambusters pilot has spoken of an overwhelming sense of responsibility to preserve the memory of the RAF Bomber Command who fought and died in World War II, as he gifted his war medals to an Auckland museum.

Victoria police said the medals were located yesterday by Australia Post, and it appeared they had not been stolen.

While the doomed World War I escapade needlessly cost tens of thousands of lives, Gallipoli helped forge the early identity of the Maori in fledgling NZ.

Eight New Zealand veterans have been awarded the French Legion of Honour for their bravery and commitment in World War II.

A giant poppy made up of 59,000 red discs - one for each of the New Zealanders killed or wounded in World War I - will begin to take shape.

Thousands of refugees with Armenian roots are returning to start a new life in the shadow of Mount Ararat 100 years after the Armenian 'genocide'.

At least 2000 women have been abducted by Boko Haram, detained in prisons and houses and subjected to forced marriage, stonings and sexual slavery.