The greatest honour we can pay the dead is to learn from the past and to never commit ourselves to such barbarity again, writes Anton Oliver

Sometimes historical mistakes are so monumental it is pointless to wonder what might have been.

France has honoured the heroic efforts of two New Zealand war veterans.

Filmed from a camera attached to a helmet of one of the commandos, the viewer sees the scene more or less as that soldier did.

Real-life links of Ben Wishaw's family to world of espionage revealed in book by agent's daughter.

An African man shot by an Israeli guard who mistook him for an assailant was then kicked by a mob as he lay bleeding before he died.

Arab neighbourhoods in Jerusalem are expected to be sealed off and soldiers placed in city centres to support the police amid rising bloodshed and unrest.

American anti-tank missiles supplied to Syrian rebels are playing an unexpectedly prominent role in shaping the Syrian battlefield.

Russia's presence in Syria under the pretence taking the fight to Isis is a strategic triumph for Vladimir Putin and an embarrassment for Barack Obama, writes Paul Thomas.

Moscow says it will work to avert potential mishaps between Russian and US pilots flying missions over Syria, Pentagon officials say.

The New Zealand Defence Force is searching for a famous rugby trophy won by a team of New Zealand soldiers almost 100 years ago.

Russian President's dramatic deployment of soldiers, weapons and aircraft to Syria aimed at reshaping civil war.

A re-enactment of the Rimutaka Crossing was undertaken by 250 marchers travelling the route thousands of WWI soldiers took a century ago.

On the afternoon of October 6, 1915, Leslie Beauchamp, a New Zealander in the British Army, gave a class in grenade throwing. He didn't survive it.

Besides the grey-haired men full of battle scars and secrets, there are many other veterans in the 20s and 30s who need just as much support.

Syrian refugees Lilas and Basal Slik have been sleeping soundly this year for the first time in their lives.

Hundreds of couples have poured into New York's Times Square to re-enact the famous photograph of a kiss between a sailor and a woman celebrating the end of World War II.

German troops involved in a coalition training mission in Iraq have reported that Isis (Islamic State) fighters have used chemical weapons on a Kurdish militia.

A battlefield centenary service has been held on a hill where nearly 850 New Zealanders were killed in two days of intense fighting during the Gallipoli campaign.

Bravery and resolve of New Zealand's troops' supreme feat of achievement deserves August 8 commemoration.

Whatever his shortcomings in executing the war, Saddam felt he had saved the Gulf sheikdoms and was worthy of greater respect, writes Tom Clifford.

The US is "an insurmountable obstacle" to disarmament, former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev says in a wide-ranging recent interview published this week.

The crowd sat entranced as 78-year-old Emiko Okada recalled the horrifying events of August 6, 1945, a day that started hot and cloudless.

Seventy years after Hiroshima and Nagasaki, New Zealand must take the lead on banning lethal weapons, writes Dita De Boni.

If there is one event that defines the modern world, it is the blinding, searing, radioactive explosion over the city of Hiroshima 70 years ago today.