John Key says there are New Zealanders fighting in anti-government forces in Syria, while others have been blocked from going there by having their passports cancelled.

It's Hungary's Holocaust memorial year - but why are Jewish groups in the country intending to boycott all state-organised events?

Al-Qaeda has disavowed its offshoot in Syria, seeking to distance itself from a group too extreme even for the organisation founded by Osama bin Laden.

Soaring defence budgets in China and Russia mean that global military spending is growing for the first time in five years, according to forecasts.

Britain should not have gone to war in 1914 and the decision to do so was the "biggest error in modern history", according to historian Niall Ferguson.

Syrian negotiators have reached their first deal in peace talks in Geneva, an agreement to allow women and children to escape the siege of rebel-held districts of the city of Homs.

At least 40 Aboriginal soldiers fought at Gallipoli - but you wouldn't know it.

The United States Army is considering replacing thousands of soldiers with robots as it adjusts to sweeping troop cuts.

The United States and Gulf countries have been secretly backing rebel efforts to destroy al-Qaeda's most extreme wing in Syria, diplomats and rebels involved in the plan say.

The Syrian regime of President Bashar al-Assad has funded and co-operated with al-Qaeda in a complex double game even as the terrorists fight Damascus.

Defector says idealists indoctrinated in Syria to carry out terror attacks in West.

Shocking images depicting US soldiers burning the bodies of what appear to be Iraqi insurgents have sparked a military probe.

The FBI "most wanted" mugshot shows a tough, swarthy figure, his hair in a jailbird crew-cut.

Syria has witnessed a large rise in the use and manufacture of amphetamines as fighters on both sides of its civil war use the drugs for stamina in battle.

A project honouring New Zealanders who served in World War I is unlikely to be completed in time for the centenary of the war's outbreak, the Herald understands.

British officials are defending their plans for commemorations of World War I amid fears recognition of New Zealand's role could fall victim to an "Anzac whitewash".

There are fears recognition of NZ's role in WWI in British commemorations this year could fall victim to an 'Anzac whitewash' driven by domestic politics.

A fight has erupted in Britain over the cause of World War 1, pitting Conservatives against Labour, academic against academic and Boris against Blackadder's Baldrick.

An Afghan girl believed to be about 10 years old was caught in Helmand province wearing a bomb vest after her brother encouraged her to carry out a suicide attack.

A West Auckland police station was evacuated this afternoon after a man brought in a suspected bomb he found buried in a garden.

The American military is auctioning off millions of dollars of tankers, accommodation blocks, tents, generators and other "white goods" in Afghanistan.

A long line of evacuees stretched from the departures area of Juba Airport into the baking sun of South Sudan.

Footage from inside the Hamas tunnel network which was exposed shortly after the October 7 attack. Video / The Telegraph

The United States, Poland and three Baltic countries have expressed alarm at Russia's deployment of nuclear-capable missiles to the exclave of Kaliningrad.

An Israeli soldier was killed by a Lebanese army sniper as he drove along the border, the Israeli military said, drawing Israeli threats of retaliation.