United Nations report appears to back claims SAS troops killed civilians in Afghani raid.

NZSAS soldier says civilians were killed after faulty US intelligence.

One of the most damning claims in Nicky Hager's new book has been confirmed.

COMMENT: Whether Nicky Hager's new book scores the required hits is yet to be determined.

Credible sources are emerging to confirm civilians were killed during raid in Afghanistan.

Wayne Mapp and former governor of Bamyan province both confirm civilian deaths.

Labour, Greens and NZ First want an inquiry into claims made in a new book.

Claim from NZDF there were no civilian casualties at odds with Minister's comment in 2014.

While cordons on the Port Hills have been relaxed, Civil Defence says non-residents are still banned from the area

The wife of the pilot and war hero killed when his helicopter crashed as he fought the Port Hills fires is "amazed" by the support for her family.

Kiwis dig deep to support family of helicopter pilot killed fighting Christchurch's Port Hills fire.

Kingi Ihaka, who died in Auckland on Tuesday morning, has returned to Te Kao, where he was born in 1942. He is remembered as a distinguished

Four men in four years have stepped off civvy street into the elite NZ Special Air Service after completing its gruelling selection course.

Our intelligence agencies are so secretive that most of the stories we find out about are by accident.

Vector Arena was transformed into boxing central last night as 10,000 fight fans packed the stands to watch Joseph Parker try to create history.

A former soldier who defrauded people out of thousands of pounds by pretending to be a decorated war veteran with cancer has been jailed for 16 months.

Gerry Brownlee says the Iraqis are taking the lead and that is how is should stay.

There is a danger that this conflict will draw us ever deeper into a quagmire, writes Gehan Gunasekar. There is a danger of escalation should the current proxy conflict spill into conflict between the great powers involved themselves.

Passions over the announced deployment of a New Zealand training mission to Iraq spilled over in Parliament again yesterday.

John Key has admitted that though any Kiwi troops sent to Iraq would be "behind the wire", they'd still face significant risk from attack by Isis supporters posing as soldiers.

Defence Force staff have begun training for potential deployment to Iraq to support the fight against Islamic State (Isis), Defence Minister Gerry Brownlee has confirmed.

John Key was playing to a vital international audience when he said that New Zealand has an opportunity to make sure the United Nations Security Council lifts its game.

The Prime Minister says New Zealand could expand its counter-piracy mission around Somalia or undertake missions delaying or disrupting enemy forces in the Gulf to free up other countries to focus more on Isis.

New Zealand's options for assisting the US led coalition against Islamic State range from simply continuing our humanitarian support to the "pointy end of things" - a deployment of our....

The argument that if we don't join the American crusade to wipe out Muslim fanatics in Iraq and Syria, they'll swoop down to Godzone and behead us all is a rerun of the old Vietnam War domino theory....

NZ's elite SAS personnel aren't yet on standby for deployment to combat Islamic State militants - but the PM can't rule out sending them in if asked.