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.

A Kiwi professor will deliver a lecture at London's Imperial War Museum today on a flu pandemic that killed more people than the whole of the First World War.

The general who led Israel's war against Hamas last year believes it is in Israel's interest that Hamas continue to rule the Gaza Strip.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbot took part in the dedication for the Australian Memorial at the Pukeahu National War Memorial, saying the Anzac links forged a century ago continue.

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.