Confused? Here's a guide to fracas that has followed the release of the Hit & Run book.

Ameen Mokdad risked his life when he played music but he says alternative was unthinkable.

NZ seems to be "beckoning China as an enemy", Australian journalist John Pilger says.

NZ Defence Force's interpreters talk about their former roles and life in NZ.

Mother of soldier says she wishes NZ troops were brought home before her son died in 2012.

For three years the NZ Defence Force resisted releasing the report.

NZSAS soldier says civilians were killed after faulty US intelligence.

The Iraqis' progress has been remarkable, Brigadier Hugh McAslan tells.

Iraq general in charge of the war against Isis calls them 'a disease'.

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.

In 1969, a 20-year-old Corporal Benfell led eight men into combat in Vietnam.

Previously classified footage of nuclear explosions tested during the Cold War have been rescued from high-security vaults.

If you thought the defeat of Isis in Iraq would be a major win, think again. What lies ahead is a total mess.

Aid deliveries have all but stopped for hundreds of thousands of Syrians.

US President Donald Trump has pledged to increase US defense spending.

The remains of an unknown NZ soldier have been found a century after he died.

For complicated reasons to do with war and politics, the only way in and out of the enclave controlled by Syria's Kurds is on a rusty

Opposing sides in the Syrian war came face-to-face in United Nations peace talks for the first time in three years yesterday.

COMMENT: Yesterday our nation paused just before one o'clock to remember.

How many languages can you speak? Hamilton resident Christian Damba knows eight languages and is now adding Te Reo as his ninth. - Made with funding from NZ on Air

Joyce Luma, head of the United Nation's World Food Programme in South Sudan, called the famine "man-made".

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.

A genetically engineered virus is easier to make and could kill more people than nuclear weapons, says Bill Gates.

Wreaths laid on beach where Japanese soldiers ordered nurses to walk into the sea and then shot.

A simple Christmas Day text exchange has snowballed into a nightmare for Donald Trump, and it is nowhere near ending.

Russian media denied that chemical attacks had taken place, depicting rescue workers as jihadist militants and doctors as propagandist purveyors of "fake news".