While the focus will be on free trade, New Zealand's defence commitments to South Korea are also likely to be on the table when Prime Minister John Key meets South Korean President Park Guen-hye today.

This morning, almost 60 years to the day since the Korean War ground to a halt, 34 New Zealand veterans of the conflict will look across the heavily fortified demilitarised zone at their former North Korean enemy.

After 70 years of wondering what he had done wrong to lose his wartime sweetheart, a British man will finally marry his love this weekend.

War in all its terror is becoming ever more visible. Helmet cameras and the like enable commanders to watch the fighting from the other side of the world and inevitably, the footage finds its way into the public eye.

MPs will return to the House today with three new reminders of New Zealand's losses and service in wars overseas.

Syrian state media had announced that "Operation Northern Storm" would retake Aleppo "within days" after regime forces captured Qusair at the beginning of June.

Seven al-Qaeda-linked militants on a suicide mission attacked the UN compound with a truck bomb and then poured inside, killing at least 13 people before dying in the assault.

More than half a million people fled Syria's civil war last year, and the UN says that number could double by the end of 2013.

Israel is worried about continued arms supplies to the Syrian regime from Russia.

Photographs of the bloodied face of a 14-year-old boy executed in front of his parents by jihadists in northern Syria show the extreme justice meted out in rebel-held areas.

An interactive map that plots where 18,000 New Zealand soldiers who died in World War I are buried has been created for a project marking the conflict's centenary.

The top US intelligence official stressed yesterday that a previously undisclosed programme for tapping into internet usage is authorised by Congress.

The memories have come flooding back for three Korean War veterans before the opening of a special photo exhibition that features 150 images taken by Kiwi soldiers.

Sometimes, in diplomacy, a translator is not enough. You need a code-breaker.

After 68 years, a group of war veterans have finally received the recognition they waited so long for.

Daniel Pearl had been held captive in Pakistan for more than a month when Mariane, his wife, learned he was dead.

America's perpetual war against terrorism must come to an end, President Barack Obama declared yesterday, as he announced restrictions on drone strikes and a fresh effort to close Guantanamo Bay.

Iraq is edging closer to all-out sectarian war between Sunni and Shia Muslims as a series of car bombings and shootings killed at least 90 people and left many others injured yesterday.

Bombs ripped through Sunni areas in Baghdad and surrounding areas Friday (local time), killing at least 76 people in the deadliest day in Iraq in more than eight months.

Sitting on a dirty straw mat on the parched ground of southern Afghanistan, Masooma sank deeper inside a giant shawl. Hidden from view, her words burst forth as she told what happened to her family in pre-dawn darkness on March 11 last year.

The Government says it will consider asylum for translators who worked with New Zealand's SAS soldiers in Afghanistan and have been left jobless and in danger.

The mob shouted "Kill the Syrians" as they marched on the Hawam family drinks stall in Reyhanli.