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.

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

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.

A large contingent of Defence Force personnel to be deployed in Iraq left Ohakea Air Force Base today for Australia, the Defence Force says.

Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott arrived in New Zealand last night for Anzac centenary events and talks on the military mission to Iraq.

More New Zealanders were being monitored because of their links to Islamic State the head of the New Zealand Security Intelligence Service says.

Yazidi girls - some as young as 8 - were raped by jihadists then sold, says a report issued yesterday.

Defence Minister Gerry Brownlee has dismissed reports that New Zealand troops have already left for Iraq on their joint training mission with Australia.

Prime Minister John Key was unable to name the head of the Islamist terrorist group Isis - but nor could the Australian Defence Minister.

Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi made a personal appeal to US President Barack Obama for more funds to help the country push back Isis forces.

Kiwi troops are leaving for Iraq today to begin a two-year deployment working alongside Australian forces.

A 9-year-old girl who was taken as a sex slave by Isis was raped by 10 militants and is now pregnant, it has been reported.

Yazidi women released by Isis this week have given distressing accounts of their ordeals.

Mass graves containing the bodies of 1700 Iraqi military cadets killed by Isis are being opened - TV clips showing skeletal remains still wearing combat boots.

Labour has attacked the degree of secrecy about the preparation of a New Zealand troop deployment to Iraq.

Labour has attacked the degree of secrecy about the preparation of a New Zealand troop deployment to Iraq.

Ralph Baydoun is a 23-year-old Lebanese videographer based in World Vision's Beirut office and last month we travelled together to some of the more challenging areas of the Middle East - the Kurdistan region of Iraq, and the Lebanon-Syrian border.

Spare a thought for our Prime Minister. The price of "club" membership is to take New Zealand into a war not of our making, training troops who were once our enemy.

He looks downwards and shakes his head in response to my question, "What do you hope for?"

Nareen and her daughter almost died after jihadists trapped Yazidi refugees.

Canada's mysterious and small operation has become a lot bigger and more costly since it began, writes Dita De Boni. Which could be our fate, too.

The Independent investigates how Isis jihadis govern every aspect of life within the territories they control.

'The scenes terrified me': Meet the former jihadi who deserted Isis rather than take part in executions, beheadings and rape.

One day, he was a dental surgeon. The next, he was held at gunpoint and thrown in a cell, where he watched the other prisoners shot one by one. Ashour tells his story.

A teenage Melbourne terrorist who reportedly died in a suicide bombing in Iraq had previously been plotting an attack in Australia.

New images have emerged of three men accused of homosexuality and blasphemy being publicly beheaded at a traffic roundabout in northern Iraq.

One of the lesser-noted points in Prime Minister John Key's speech last year on the New Zealand response to the crisis caused by Isis was that "we will be looking at further assistance to meet....

The Nigerian militant group Boko Haram has announced it is joining Isis by apparently releasing an audio statement swearing allegiance.