A criminal inquiry has started into a firefight in which two New Zealand soldiers were killed in Afghanistan last year.

"Match" - It's just one word but for Kim Abraham that word on a DNA test would answer her life-long question: her sailor dad's identity.

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.

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.

Five years after Obama said he'd shut it, over 100 prisoners, including a British resident - are still chained in Guantanamo. DAVID JONES went inside and was horrified by what he found.

The last surviving pilot of the Dambusters raid in World War II, Tauranga resident Les Munro, will be a guest of honour at England's 70th anniversary of the raid on May 16.

The man found living in the Vietnam jungle, who a new documentary claims is ‘long dead’ US army veteran Sergeant John Hartley Robertson, is likely to be a fraud.

George W. Bush wasn't lying about Iraq after all, and those of us who said that he was owe him an apology.

An award-winning documentary maker is raising money to make a film about New Zealand's greatest war correspondent.

On Anzac Day people in this part of the world commemorate the cost of war, loved ones lost, families ripped apart and lives forever changed, writes Ulrike McCullagh.

The Hobsonville War Memorial Park reclines on the corner of Hobsonville and Ockleston Roads in Hobsonville.

Harry "Middy" Middleton spoke very few words about the Great War.

Private Corey Twamley was fighting to give Afghan children the kind of human rights his daughter was born into.

Not many of us have a genuine hero for a big brother, says Rodney Hide. His friend Vince Ashworth has two.

Tauranga lawyer Belinda Pidwell will never forget a Bosnian man tell how he and his family were lined up and shot.

We are perilously close to stumbling into a war of potentially global proportions.

Hitherto unseen evidence given to the Chilcot Inquiry by British intelligence has revealed that former British Prime Minister Tony Blair was told that Iraq had, at most, only a trivial amount of weapons of mass destruction.

If North Korea matches its warlike rhetoric with actions we are all in trouble, writes Robert Ayson. Kim Jong-Un may not have inherited the kind of nuclear warheads from his father that are ready to be put on to long-range missiles.