A secret, failed mission by the United States military to rescue American hostages, including the murdered journalist James Foley, has been described in full to the Daily Telegraph.

David Cameron has said that it is "increasingly likely" that a British jihadist beheaded American journalist James Foley

The headstone, its inscription concealed for decades under a coat of lichen, bears witness to the past.

A young soldier who died exactly 100 years ago has been officially acknowledged as the first New Zealand casualty of WWI.

Up to 80 Yazidis have been reported killed by Isis (Islamic State) fighters in the biggest massacre so far of the Iraqi minority.

Australia is considering joining the United States in a limited military operation to rescue as many as 30,000 Iraqi refugees trapped on a barren mountain in the north.

18: In 1871, a German giant mobilised the New Zealand left. That year 600 people, inspired by Karl Marx, formed an unemployed workers union and demonstrated.

17: Karl Strack risked his life to advance New Zealand over the Germans again and again; we repaid his bravery by blacklisting him.

The people of the mountain can see their villages, and the headlights of the jihadi patrols snaking through the streets they have abandoned, and know they cannot return.

The Sydney grandfather of a 7-year-old boy pictured clutching the severed head of a Syrian soldier has urged the Australian Government to bring the boy home.

US air strikes are boosting Kurdish morale as they hit Isis fighters, and a road is now open for thousands of Yazidis cut off in the mountains.

William Burnwas the first New Zealand pilot killed in World War I action.

Among Pam MacDonald's most prized treasures is the black-and-white photograph of her late father cradling her in his arms when she was a baby.

National's election war-chest has been given a half-million dollar boost by the estate of a wealthy Christchurch businessman.

An Australian jihadist has tweeted a photo of his young son holding up a severed head of a dead Syrian soldier.

Prince Harry has recalled the "horrendous" images he saw during two tours of Afghanistan.

The 8-year-old boy's question seemed simple enough but was all the more tragically poignant for that.

The spoils of a battle that gave hope to the Allies in their darkest hour will go on sale at a special auction next week.

RSA clubs are moving plaques, paintings and photographs to "freshen up" bars and function rooms, angering vets.

14: One by one the letters arrived in New Zealand informing Gertrude Browne of the saddest news.

Tens of thousands of members of Iraqi religious minority groups driven from their homes for fear of the jihadist group Islamic State are dying of thirst and heat on a desert mountainside.

The first full day of peace reveals the massive reconstruction task ahead.

12: Of all the soldiers who served and died in World War I, few could match the gifts of Hugh Montagu Butterworth in their descriptions of the conflict.

On the morning of July 15, Moscow was as hot as an oven.

100 years on from the beginning of the first World War, the Torpedo Bay Naval Museum in Auckland has chosen a theatrical way of commemorating the fallen. Geoff Allen's 'Sister Anzac' tells the herstory of the hospital ship 'Maheno' and the nurses who served aboard.